Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house where malt liquors are sold; an ale-house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tavern that sellsbeer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a rule the beerhouse is the only place of amusement to which he can resort: it is his theatre, his music-hall, picture-gallery, and Crystal Palace.
The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867
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Wese, old nightshade, friend, beerhouse crony, oozing out into the dark ground of the street.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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Yuson, passive-aggressive beerhouse rhetorician extraordinaire, blasted the selection of Lumbera as National Artist over his bet, Cirilo F.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Yuson, passive-aggressive beerhouse rhetorician extraordinaire, blasted the selection of Lumbera as National Artist over his bet, Cirilo F.
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At a beerhouse, Meredith and her friends hold a rally.
Kisses Like the Devil-Diane Whiteside « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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And the next morning it opened with a mighty clatter, and was a dirty little beerhouse that stank of beer, and there was a fat and grimy landlord with red spots upon his neck, and much noisy traffic going by on the cobbles outside.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a whiff of foul air and foul language from its door, nor see the crumpled furtive figure — some rascal child — that slinks past us down the steps.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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Therefore, I should advise my sagacious countrymen, if ever again they wish to trumpet about for thirty years a very commonplace person as a great genius, not to choose for the purpose such a beerhouse-keeper physiognomy as was possessed by that philosopher, upon whose face nature had written, in her clearest characters, the familiar inscription, “commonplace person.”
Religion 2004
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Looking about the street, he ducks into a beerhouse.
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I hired a horse at a livery-stable at Walsall, and had him kept in readiness in the back yard of a beerhouse.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray
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