chocolate housen.

Brit.

/ˈtʃɒk(ə)lət ˌhaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈtʃɔk(ə)lət ˌhaʊs/,

/ˈtʃɑk(ə)lət ˌhaʊs/

Forms: see chocolate n. and adj. and house n.¹ and int.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: chocolate n., house n.¹

Etymology: < chocolate n. + house n.¹, after coffee-house n.

Now historical.

An establishment whose main business is the sale of chocolate as a hot drink. Cf. coffee-house n.Chocolate houses were much frequented in the 18th cent. (after which chocolate declined in popularity and fashionability as a drink), and were known as places for the exchange of political and literary conversation, news, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > chocolate-house

chocolate house1691

cocoa house1706

cocoa tavern1875

cocoa inn1902

1691 W. Mountfort Greenwich-Park Prol. sig. A4 And for the Masks who hunt the smaller Fry, Their Chocolet-House will their wants supply.

1694 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 341 The lord Cholmley and Mr. Bertie (vice-chamberlain) quarrelling yesterday at the chocolate house, went out to fight.

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 A Chocolate-House Lampoon.

1715 L. Theobald tr. Aristophanes Plutus ii. 30 I am inclin'd to be rich too; will live well at home with my Wife and Children, go to the Bagnio, come out as slick as a Chocolate-house Beau, and fart in the Face of Poverty.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 49 In the common Theaters, or in the Jocalat-Houses.

1724 London Gaz. No. 6270/9 All Keepers of Coffee or Chocolate-Houses.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. clxi. 313 Seldom seen but at Newmarket and the chocolate-house.

1838 Tatler Apr. 358 Steele heard him discoursing one evening at the Chocolate-house in the following strain... It seems that his heart was overflowing with some false idea of his success.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. xi. 207 She announced to her friends that her cousin was going to the army, in as easy a manner as she would have said he was going to a chocolate-house.

1914 Lotus Mag. 6 97/1 Bianco's place was known also, and perhaps even better, as a chocolate house, because the founder of the resort shrewdly wished to identify his enterprise with the beverage introduced a little later than coffee.

2002 R. Cohen By Sword i. iii. 52 By the reign of George III public brawls were going out of style and swords were drawn less frequently in gambling halls, taverns, and chocolate houses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	chocolate house
释义	chocolate housen. Brit. /ˈtʃɒk(ə)lət ˌhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈtʃɔk(ə)lət ˌhaʊs/, /ˈtʃɑk(ə)lət ˌhaʊs/ Forms: see chocolate n. and adj. and house n.¹ and int. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: chocolate n., house n.¹ Etymology: < chocolate n. + house n.¹, after coffee-house n. Now historical. An establishment whose main business is the sale of chocolate as a hot drink. Cf. coffee-house n.Chocolate houses were much frequented in the 18th cent. (after which chocolate declined in popularity and fashionability as a drink), and were known as places for the exchange of political and literary conversation, news, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > chocolate-house chocolate house1691 cocoa house1706 cocoa tavern1875 cocoa inn1902 1691 W. Mountfort Greenwich-Park Prol. sig. A4 And for the Masks who hunt the smaller Fry, Their Chocolet-House will their wants supply. 1694 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 341 The lord Cholmley and Mr. Bertie (vice-chamberlain) quarrelling yesterday at the chocolate house, went out to fight. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 A Chocolate-House Lampoon. 1715 L. Theobald tr. Aristophanes Plutus ii. 30 I am inclin'd to be rich too; will live well at home with my Wife and Children, go to the Bagnio, come out as slick as a Chocolate-house Beau, and fart in the Face of Poverty. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 49 In the common Theaters, or in the Jocalat-Houses. 1724 London Gaz. No. 6270/9 All Keepers of Coffee or Chocolate-Houses. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. clxi. 313 Seldom seen but at Newmarket and the chocolate-house. 1838 Tatler Apr. 358 Steele heard him discoursing one evening at the Chocolate-house in the following strain... It seems that his heart was overflowing with some false idea of his success. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. xi. 207 She announced to her friends that her cousin was going to the army, in as easy a manner as she would have said he was going to a chocolate-house. 1914 Lotus Mag. 6 97/1 Bianco's place was known also, and perhaps even better, as a chocolate house, because the founder of the resort shrewdly wished to identify his enterprise with the beverage introduced a little later than coffee. 2002 R. Cohen By Sword i. iii. 52 By the reign of George III public brawls were going out of style and swords were drawn less frequently in gambling halls, taverns, and chocolate houses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1691
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