alehouse
See also: ale-house
English
Alternative forms
- ale-house
Etymology
From Middle English alehous, alehuse from Old English ealuhūs. Synchronically, ale + house.
Pronunciation
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Noun
alehouse (plural alehouses)
- A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.
- Synonyms: beer parlour, beer bar, brewpub, pub, saloon
- 1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
- Find him in a pulpit but twiſe in the yeare,
And Ile find him fortie times in the ale-houſe taſting ſtrong beare.
- 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, OCLC 977517776, page 19:
- Mention has been already made more than once, of a certain Dragon who swung and creaked complainingly before the village ale-house door.
Translations
beer parlour — see beer parlour
Middle English
Noun
alehouse
- Alternative form of alehous