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ˈpot-house
[f. pot n.1 + house n.1]
†1. A house where pottery is made. Obs. rare.
1697Lond. Gaz. No. 3300/4 A very convenient Brick House to be let, having a Potthouse belonging to it, and a very fine Yard for Washing of Clay. 1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 95/2 A premium to..master of the stone pot-house at Fulham for..making crucibles of British materials.
2. A house where pots of beer and other intoxicants are retailed; an ale-house; a small, unpretentious, or low tavern or public-house.
1724Lond. Gaz. No. 6320/3 A large well built accustomed Pot-House,..known by the Name of the Hermitage Pot-House. 1748Warton Panegyr. on Oxford Ale 27 To pot-house I repair, the sacred haunt, Where, Ale, thy votaries in full resort Hold rites nocturnal. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xii, The paragon of all pothouses; snug little bar with red curtains [etc.]. 1887Jessopp Arcady iii. 92 They were extremely capable men, but they could not keep from the pot-house.
b. attrib. Belonging to or characteristic of a pot-house; low, vulgar.
1816Southey in Q. Rev. XVI. 275 The class of men for whom these pot-house epistles are written, read nothing else. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxvii, Reeking yet with pot⁓house odours. 1895J. Hollingshead My Lifetime I. xiii. 124 There was no pot-house bluster about the two combatants. |