NOUN
- tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals
How To Use public house In A Sentence
- Another resolution inviting all sick societies to remove their lodges from the public houses to the schools was also carried.
- Brian retired from the sea a number of years ago and bought a local public house, needless to say this was frequented by many local and visiting fishermen who always received a very warm welcome.
- The peace camp was offered new accommodation by the landlady of the Axe and Compass public house in Kempsford.
- He rarely wrote letters, conducting his business on the telephone or, more often, holding court in public houses, where he was an unrivalled raconteur.
- Hundreds of people later gathered, resulting in a five-hour stand-off against police as missiles were thrown, shops and businesses looted and public houses set on fire.
- These include Blackrock Castle in Cork - not so long ago its gate lodge was used as a public house.
- There was a public house named the Black Bull, a butcher's, saddler's and a shoemaker's.
- As with 2008's Sweet Bells, Penistone folkie Rusby draws on the tradition of carol singing in South Yorkshire public houses, even unearthing centuries-old tunes in Diadem and Holmfirth Anthem. Kate Rusby: While Mortals Sleep – review
- A plumber was stabbed in the chest and died within minutes when he tried to pacify an angry man armed with a knife outside a public house, a jury was told.
- Mother would say the stones of the road knew him because for the most part he could be found traipsing from one neighbours dwelling to the next or most likely to the public house.
