alehouse - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
  • 1.3 Pronunciation
  • 1.4 Noun
    * 1.4.1 Derived terms
    * 1.4.2 Translations
• 2 Middle English
  • 2.1 Noun

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• ale-house

From Middle English alehous, alehuse from Old English ealuhūs. By surface analysis, ale +‎ house.

alehouse (plural alehouses)

1. A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.
   Synonyms: beer parlour, beer bar, brewpub, pub, saloon
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 326:
     But go to—carry thy roisterers elsewhere—to the alehouse if they list, and there are crowns to pay your charges—make out the day’s madness without doing more mischief, and be wise men to-morrow—and hereafter learn to serve a good cause better than by acting like ruffians.

• alehouse keeper
• hedge alehouse

alehouse

1. alternative form of alehous

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