Beerhouse
an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
historical examples
durand immediately forgot himself in a beerhouse, and it was a difficult matter to get him away from it to hold the rehearsal.
louis spohr’s autobiography louis spohr
a tall stripling of a moravian youth, meagre as a sign-post, was the beerhouse ganymede.
hungarian sketches in peace and war mr jkai
next day he met t-toff’s russian friend in the german beerhouse, according to plan; and so to the hiding-place.
eastern nights – and flights alan bott
he invites him to a beerhouse to learn his drinking habits and reports favorably upon them.
the life of ludwig van beethoven, volume iii (of 3) alexander wheelock thayer
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 david christie murray
i heard of one beerhouse, the owner of which had only drawn ls.
home-life of the lancashire factory folk during the cotton famine edwin waugh
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