Pothouse

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  • noun. A tavern.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An ale-house; a liquor-saloon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An alehouse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Alternative spelling of pot-house.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals
  • Word Usage
    "The future will organize the exodus of whole villages, which, like those of the Hebrides in the last century, will bear with them to new worlds their Lares and Penates, their wives, families, and friends, who will lay out the church and the churchyard after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and who will not forget the palaver-house, vulgarly called pothouse or pub."
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    taphouse  tavern  
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    alehouse