drafthouse

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English

Etymology

From draft +‎ house.

Noun

drafthouse (plural drafthouses)

  1. A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.
    • 2000, Michael Ketover, How to Be a Better Birder: Travel Stories, page 147:
      Going to Tiffany's on Young Circle in Hollywood for the 3-for-1's, open 'til 3 AM, now a cinema and drafthouse.
    • 2007, Christopher Golden, The Borderkind:
      Music and singing, shouts and laughter came from many of the buildings they passed—inns and drafthouses and restaurants alive with the lives of ordinary people who had toiled all day in the sun.
    • 2014, Brian Yaeger, Oregon Breweries, page 351:
      As for a winery effect on the Roseburg drafthouse (besides selling draft wine), he usually has a wine barrel-aged number available in a cask-conditioned firkin, like the red wine-aged Stock Ale I really dug.