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ˈvictualling-house
[f. prec.]
A house where victuals are supplied or sold; an eating-house, inn, or tavern.
α1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 57 To see that no vitailyng house..shoulde haue their doores open..either before the soonne risen, or after the soone set. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 148 They..determyned to buylde townes,..that they myght bee baytinge places and vytailynge houses for suche as shulde iorney towarde the southe. 1568Withals Dict. 41 b/1 A vittellynge house, where meate is to be solde. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 122, I..tooke a chamber in a vitling house, in the Market-place.
β1571in 13th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. IV. 2 Licenced to keep a victualinge house within the towne of Ry. 1600–9Rowlands Knaue of Clubbes 16 T'will be my castle for some three moneths space, while they search Tauerne, rifle victualing-house. 1662in Extr. St. P. rel. Friends ii. (1911) 146 To keepe an Alehouse or Victualling-house within your precincts. 1712Thoresby Diary (1830) II. 151 After dinner at a victualling-house, I walked to Mr. Dawson's. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 371/1 No License shall be granted to sell it by retail but to Publick Victualling-Houses, Inns, Coffee Houses or Alehouses. 1842Act 5–6 Vict. c. 44 §1 Any Act or Acts in force touching the Regulation..of..Victualling Houses. 1885Law Times 28 Mar. 389/2 A refreshment and victualling house..on the Steep Holms, a rocky island in the Bristol Channel. |