Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word eatinghouse.
Examples
-
In the evening the Captain appeared in the eatinghouse.
-
The driver, a sickly man, with red eyes, in an old short-sleeved coat and in worn-out shoes, had a drunken headache; all night long he had played dice at the eatinghouse -- and he kept on flogging his vigorous little horse.
-
Sulphate of copper poison SO4 or something in some dried peas he remembered reading of in a cheap eatinghouse somewhere but he couldn't remember when it was or where.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
-
Then he would thoughtfully and slowly direct his steps to the eatinghouse of
Creatures That Once Were Men Maksim Gorky 1902
-
One day, towards the end of September, Captain Aristid Kuvalda was sitting, as was his custom, on the bench near the door of the dosshouse, looking at the stone building built by the merchant Petunikoff close to Vaviloff's eatinghouse, and thinking deeply.
Creatures That Once Were Men Maksim Gorky 1902
-
On rainy, cold, or dull days in the late autumn, these "creatures that once were men" gathered in the eatinghouse of Vaviloff.
Creatures That Once Were Men Maksim Gorky 1902
-
King sent a warrant to search for her, and she was found in an obscure eatinghouse all in rags, having pawned her clothes to maintain an old deformed footman, who beat her every day, and in whose company she was taken much against her will.
Gulliver's Travels 1896
-
My breakfast is made a la garcon: dinners, &c., from a neighbouring eatinghouse.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr Davis, Matthew L 1836
-
In a prolonged inquiry into the condition of shop-girls in both the West and East End, the needs to be met first of all summed themselves up in four: (1) more seats and far more liberty in the use of them; (2) better arrangements for midday dinner -- on the premises if possible, the girls now losing much of the hour in a hurried rush to the nearest eatinghouse; (3) with this, some regularity as to time for dinner, this being left at present to the caprice of the manager, who both delays and shortens time; (4) much greater care in the selection of managers.
Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Helen Campbell 1878
-
Sulphate of copper poison SO4 or something in some dried peas he remembered reading of in a cheap eatinghouse somewhere but he couldn’t remember when it was or where.
Ulysses 2003
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.