wine-housen.
/ˈwʌɪnhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈwaɪnˌhaʊs/ 1. A public house where wine is drunk. Now chiefly Historical or with particular local reference.
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wine-house1607
wine lodge1880
Heurige1919
bistro1922
wine bar1938
ouzeri1964
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. C2 From him come I, to intreate you..to meet him this afternoon at the Rhenesh-wine-house ith Stillyard.
1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 355 Our warehowse roome, dyninge roome, and wyne howse.
1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 64 Thou [sc. the Bible] art the oyl and the wine~house.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 24 Nov. (1970) I. 301 Creed and Sheply and I to the Renish wine-house; and there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine. And so we broke up.
1805 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 2) Wine-houses, certain places of resort in the garrison of Gibraltar, from which the governor has been accustomed to derive a pecuniary profit.
1816 M. Keating Trav. Eur. & Afr. I. 50 [In Spain] It is disgraceful to be seen entering a wine-house.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 5/3 The wine-house known as the White Hart in the Euston-road.
2. A house that deals in wine; a firm of wine-merchants.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > trading firm or establishment > specific
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1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 195 A clerk in a wine-house.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1140 No natural Sherry comes to this country; no wine house will send it.
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