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beef-houses

beef-houses is the plural of beef-house.

Meaning of beef-house

Noun

beef-house (plural beef-houses)

  1. slaughterhouse
    • ... this man's case, and he informed me then that it was used as a slaughter-house, and I then rode over and inspected the place, found a small corral or inclosure, also a log house and one small building which I supposed was the beef-house.1876, House Documents - Volume 12; Volume 284, page 16
  2. steakhouse
    • Once, I remember carrying my own bread (which I had brought from home in the morning) under my arm, wrapped in a piece of paper, like a book, and going to a famous alamode beef-house near Drury Lane, and ordering a 'small plate' of that delicacy to eat with it.1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Questions about beef-houses

What is beef-houses the plural of?
Beef-houses is the plural of beef-house.

Words near beef-houses in the dictionary

  1. beef up
  2. beef wellington
  3. beef Wellingtons
  4. beef-brained
  5. beef-house
  6. beef-houses
  7. beef-witted
  8. Beefa
  9. beefalo
  10. beefaloes
  11. beefalos

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