victualling house

短语

词形变化

victualling houses 复数 victualling houses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A commercial establishment at which victuals (food and beverages) are served; tavern; inn.

    历史 废旧

    1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183, Nor was there on all this Ground, so much as one Inn or Victualling-House, therein to refresh the feebler sort.

    1824, Laws of Harvard College, for the Use of Students, Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, Chapter VI. Misdemeanors and criminal offences, p. 15, (2.) Making or being present at any festive entertainment […] or going into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge for the purpose of eating or drinking.