Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where ale is sold and served.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house where ale is retailed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A business, such as an
inn ortavern , whereale is sold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tavern where ale is sold
Etymologies
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Examples
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For these commentators, the alehouse was a threat to public order, a hotbed of promiscuity, and a corrupter of conventional family life.
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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The alehouse is the terrible bane of the labourer.
The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867
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An "alehouse" is, however, alluded to in a ballad on the burning of the old Globe in 1613.
Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan 1658
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You can imagine him propping up the bar at a 16th-century tavern, his jokes the sort "to make fools laugh in the alehouse".
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There is the land of course, with its leisurely rhythm and the cottages that seem to grow up out of the earth; the old alehouse, the Helyar Arms which, I discovered, and contrary to popular stories about English cooking, can give you a wonderful lunch.
Roger Housden: T.S. Eliot's Village Bares Its Teeth Roger Housden 2011
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The inn is nothing more than a village alehouse with two rooms for passing travelers.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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But no, two beaches for the price of one – a buxom-kiss-me-quick-seasidey-prom one, and an alehouse-fishermen's-wharf one round the rear, cupping an estuary that darts with boats 24/7.
Let's move to Teignmouth, Devon Tom Dyckhoff 2010
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The oarmen were impressed with the unpretentious alehouse, which quickly gained popularity among the Yale set.
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He orders that brigands and criminals be brought to justice and that the casual violence of the alehouse and the highway be controlled.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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Every night we have to go to a village, an alehouse, or an abbey and find someone who can guide us for the next day.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
brtom commented on the word alehouse
Latin for him! A cat and fiddle. No, no; the alehouse and the stable are the only schools he’ll ever go to.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I
January 8, 2007
Wordplayer commented on the word alehouse
What a quaint name for a tavern!
April 10, 2011
yarb commented on the word alehouse
Yes, we used to use this jocularly when I were a lad.
April 11, 2011