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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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
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
They have even established municipal beerhouses and Rathhauskeller.
From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa
All kitchens and beerhouses refuse on the same pretence.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott
