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victualling houses

victualling houses is the plural of victualling house.

Meaning of victualling house

Noun

victualling house (plural victualling houses)

  1. (historical, obsolete) 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

Questions about victualling houses

What is victualling houses the plural of?
Victualling houses is the plural of victualling house.

Words near victualling houses in the dictionary

  1. victualleth
  2. victualling
  3. victualling bill
  4. victualling bills
  5. victualling house
  6. victualling houses
  7. victualling yard
  8. victualling yards
  9. victualling-office
  10. victualling-offices
  11. victualls

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