victualling house
victualling house noun: a commercial establishment at which victuals (food and beverages) are served; tavern; inn.
Noun
victualling house (plural victualling houses)
- A commercial establishment at which victuals (food and beverages) are served; tavern; inn.
- […] when Antiochus lay feasting at Chalcis after his marriage, and his souldiors betooke themselues to Riot, as it had beene in a time of great security: a good man of war might haue cut all their throates, euen as they were tipling in their victualing houses […]1617, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Book 5, Chapter 5, Section 8, p. 695
- Nor was there on all this Ground, so much as one Inn or Victualling-House, therein to refresh the feebler sort.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183
Forms of victualling house
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Questions about victualling house
- What does victualling house mean?
- Victualling house means a commercial establishment at which victuals (food and beverages) are served; tavern; inn.
- What part of speech is victualling house?
- Victualling house is a noun.
- What is the plural of victualling house?
- The plural of victualling house is victualling houses.
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