beerhouse

American  

[beer-hous] / ˈbɪərˌhaʊs /

noun

British.

• beerhouses
  plural

1. an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• beerhouses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of beerhouse

First recorded in 1485–95; beer + house

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

beerhouse beerhouses

Cervejaria means beerhouse, and while you can still grab a cold Sagres at Ramiro, these days it’s all about the seafood.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2016

It stands at the corner of the street which is opposite the Steam Packet beerhouse.

From London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

If one of them lets out strange facts in his cups, it signifies nothing: no one takes any heed of a labourer’s beerhouse talk.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

The high road ascended in a curve past a few houses and a beerhouse or so, and round until all the valley in which four industrial towns lay crowded and confluent was overlooked.

From In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

All their relations have been, and still are, labourers, varied by one here who has become a tinker, or one there who keeps a small roadside beerhouse.

From The Toilers of the Field by Richard Jefferies

They have even established municipal beerhouses and Rathhauskeller.

From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa

Or sitting in beerhouses reading the financial pages of a German paper held upside down.

From Simon the Jester by William John Locke

The Flask Tavern in Flask Walk is on the site of one of the oldest beerhouses in Hampstead; the present structure is a hideous brick building of modern date.

From Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant

Professors and students disliked to be taken so far from their lodgings and their beerhouses, and the old university had been quite within the city.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Here one is in an almost undisguised working-men’s quarter, for even the shops and beerhouses hardly take the trouble to exhibit a trifling degree of cleanliness. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley