night house
English
Alternative forms
- night-house
Noun
night house (plural night houses)
- (now chiefly historical) A tavern, music-hall, or other public house which is open during the night. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 70, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- The only remarkable scene in Amsterdam, which our company had not seen, was the Spuyl or musick-houses […] . To one of these night-houses did our travellers repair, under the conduct of the English merchant […] .
- 1960, Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic:
- Their custom was copied by fast night houses.
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