tippling-housen.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A house where intoxicating liquor is sold and drunk; an ale-house, a tavern.
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tap-house1500
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pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
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beer-shop1848
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rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
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Stube1946
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a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 200 The best fare is in prestes houses, for they do kepe typlynge houses.
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 25 Preamble Comen Ale~houses and other houses called Tiplinge houses.
1639 W. Laud Wks. (1853) V. 239 Our university of Oxford had heretofore the government and correction of all manner of ale-house-keepers, ale-houses, and other tippling-houses.
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 502 Instances of the villainous Behavior of those Tippling-House-keepers.
1817 W. Scott Let. 11 Aug. (1933) IV. 494 There is a terrible evil in England to which we are strangers—the number to-witt of tippling houses where the labourer..spends the overplus of his earnings.
1877 W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 393 ‘To regulate and restrain tippling houses’, confers no power to tax them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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