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- noun Plural form of
beerhouse .
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Examples
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The result was the opening of up to 30,000 new "beerhouses", which were much closer in appearance to the modern pub.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Professors and students disliked to be taken so far from their lodgings and their beerhouses, and the old university had been quite within the city.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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In 1869 the beerhouses were again brought under the licensing system.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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CHATEAUX DES FLEURES, Olympias, Alcazars, etc., with a chorus and an operetta; many restaurants and beerhouses, with little summer gardens, and common little taverns -- sprang up by the score in the city, in the vicinity of the building port.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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His part in the company was to do tricks outside beerhouses.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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Now and then after supper in summer we went into the beerhouses to beg for beer.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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Well, Rat-catchers are generally called upon to supply Rats for the Rat coursings usually held at beerhouses, etc., on Saturday afternoons, which one often sees advertised.
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898
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Or sitting in beerhouses reading the financial pages of a German paper held upside down.
Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896
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The Bridge was a sort of town to itself; it had its inn, its beerhouses, its bakeries, its haberdasheries, its food markets, its manufacturing industries, and even its church.
The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882
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Three or four wretched public-houses or beerhouses had existed in the village.
In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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