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pothouse

British  
/ ˈpɒtˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. (formerly) a small tavern or pub

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Sealed in blood!" croaks Long John Silver to his sidekick, Jim Hawkins, as they skulk in the corner of a dingy pothouse and plot their return to Treasure Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few coarse, ignorant men meet in a pothouse, night by night, to spend the money I sent in beer and foul tobacco.

From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

We returned to the Festubert pothouse in the evening.

From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord

And now, by Heaven, She stoops below me; condescends upon This hero of the pothouse, whose exploits, Writ in my character from my last place, Would damn me into ostlerdom.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard

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