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Beerhouse   Listen
noun
Beerhouse  n.  A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.






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"Beerhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... England, in 1823, upon 1,976,000 gallons, and in 1837, upon 7,875,000 gallons of spirits. The Beer Act of 1830, which facilitated the opening of beerhouses (jerry shops), whose keepers are licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, facilitated the spread of intemperance by bringing a beerhouse, so to say, to everybody's door. In nearly every street there are several such beerhouses, and among two or three neighbouring houses in the country one is sure to be a jerry shop. Besides these, there are hush- shops in multitudes, i.e., secret drinking-places which are not ...
— The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels



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