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alehouse

[ US /ˈeɪɫˌhaʊs/ ]
[ UK /ˈe‍ɪlha‍ʊs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a tavern where ale is sold

How To Use alehouse In A Sentence

  • He claims he met John's courier in a Shrewsbury alehouse, that the man paid him to deliver John's message. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • He orders that brigands and criminals be brought to justice and that the casual violence of the alehouse and the highway be controlled. The Red Queen
  • There is the land of course, with its leisurely rhythm and the cottages that seem to grow up out of the earth; the old alehouse, the Helyar Arms which, I discovered, and contrary to popular stories about English cooking, can give you a wonderful lunch. Roger Housden: T.S. Eliot's Village Bares Its Teeth
  • For these commentators, the alehouse was a threat to public order, a hotbed of promiscuity, and a corrupter of conventional family life. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
  • Many of the Mancunians, beerily making the most out of Oktoberfest here, could have been found in the alehouses around Moss Rose, Sincil Bank and Bootham Crescent 13 years ago. The Guardian World News
  • When he dragged her into a riverside alehouse, she simply sat down on the floor at his feet. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • An "alehouse" is, however, alluded to in a ballad on the burning of the old Globe in 1613. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II
  • In England pubs were either inns, providing accommodation and food to wealthy travellers; or taverns, providing only wine and spirits to the local neighbourhood; or alehouses, selling only beer to a poorer clientele.
  • The new road will leave the end of the M67 at Hattersley and bypass the four villages to the north before joining the A628 three and a half miles away above Valehouse reservoir.
  • The church-ales provided competition for the secular supply of beverages from the taverns and alehouses.
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