| 释义 |
ˈtap-house
[f. tap n.1 + house n.1]
A house where beer drawn from the tap is sold in small quantities; an ale-house; sometimes in connexion with a brewery. Also, the tap-room of an inn. Also fig.
1500–1in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. 55 In emendando hostium de le Taphouse, iiijd. 1591Nashe Prognostication Wks. (Grosart) II. 153 That their Hoffes and tappe houses shall be more frequented, then the Parishe Churches. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. i. 219. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. vi. Wks. 1738 I. 120 To creep into every blind Tap-house that fears a Constable more than a Satyr. 1764Low Life 35 Some Gentlemens Coachmen at the Tap-Houses of the Inns. 1896Daily News 20 May 5/6 ‘Tap-houses’ of breweries; licences to enable distilleries to sell two gallons of spirit, more, but not less, for home consumption.
attrib.c1639R. Davenport Surv. Sciences Poems (1890) 328 That Tap-house trick of ffidling. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect I. 120 He got drunk like a tap-house sot. |