beerhouse
noun
an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
beerhouses
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pluralof beerhouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Three or four wretched public-houses or beerhouses had existed in the village.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
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
Well, Rat-catchers are generally called upon to supply Rats for the Rat coursings usually held at beerhouses, etc., on Saturday afternoons, which one often sees advertised.
From Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience by Ike Matthews
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
