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ˈale-house
[ale- 4.]
A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.
a1000Laws of Ethelb. Thorpe I. 292 On eala-huse. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 11 Untimeliche eten alehuse. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5978 At þe alehous make þey marchaundye. c1450Knt. de la Tour 44 His parisshenes gone forthe to the ale hous or to a taverne. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. ii. 12 Would I were in an Ale-house in London. 1670Eachard Contempt Clergy 122 If upon Sunday the church doors be shut, the ale-houses will be open. 1787Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 159 The stuff fit to make a prodigal of is to be found in every alehouse. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 295 The redcoats filled all the alehouses of Westminster.
b. attrib. (Cf. also ale-knight.)
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 2 b, Scurrilitie or alehouse jestyng would bee thought odious. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. li. 305 These Tauernhaunters or Alehouseknightes which counterfeit the preachers. 1601Dent Pathw. to Heaven 248 You are..a drinker, a common ale-house-haunter. 1765Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 528 Exercising the trade of a butcher, or an ale-house keeper. 1855Tennyson Maud i. iv. ii, And Jack on his ale-house bench has as many lies as a Czar. |