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ˈwine-house
[OE. wínhús = MLG., MDu., MHG. wînhûs (Du. wijnhuis, G. weinhaus), ON. vínhús.]
1. A public house where wine is drunk. Now chiefly Hist. or with particular local reference.
1607Dekker & Webster Westw. Hoe ii. i, From him come I, to intreate you..to meet him this afternoon at the Rhenesh-wine-house ith Stillyard. 1621in Foster Engl. Factories Ind. (1906) 355 Our warehowse roome, dyninge roome, and wyne howse. 1655Vaughan Silex Scint., Agreement 19 Thou [sc. the Bible] art the oyl and the wine⁓house. 1660Pepys Diary 24 Nov., Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish winehouse, and there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine, and so we broke up. 1805C. James Milit. Dict. (ed. 2), Wine-houses, certain places of resort in the garrison of Gibraltar, from which the governor has been accustomed to derive a pecuniary profit. 1816Keatinge Trav. I. 50 [In Spain] It is disgraceful to be seen entering a wine-house. 1909Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 5/3 The wine-house known as the White Hart in the Euston-road.
2. A house that deals in wine; a firm of wine-merchants.
1834Dickens Sk. Boz, Boarding-ho. ii, A clerk in a wine⁓house. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 1140 No natural Sherry comes to this country; no wine house will send it. |