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alehouse

/eyl-hous/US // ˈeɪlˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈeɪlˌhaʊs) //

啤酒屋,啤酒馆,酒馆,酒屋

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ale·hous·es [eyl-hou-ziz]. /ˈeɪlˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : a tavern where ale or beer is sold; bar; pub.

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Examples

  • They quickly agree to desert and trudge across the titular field to an alleged alehouse.

  • After that Wilson spent his days in the alehouse, until he got delirium, and died half starved at the age of seventy.

  • Her father, who was not in the best circumstances, did not show me much attention, and I was obliged to lodge at an alehouse.

  • There are two public houses open to the poorer citizens—the Alehouse and the Workhouse.

  • For if the rich have by their laws made a mess of the alehouse, what about the other public-house—the workhouse?

  • Having no objection to this, we left the house together, and were soon comfortably seated in the warm corner of an alehouse.