pie house

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See also: pie-house and piehouse

English

Interior of the Yatala Pie Shop

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Etymology

From Middle English piehus.[1]

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Noun

pie house (plural pie houses)

  1. A shop that sells pies.
    Synonym: pieshop
    • 1970, Edgar Johnson, “Bubbles in Champagne (1789–1792)”, in Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, part 2 (Makin’ Himsell A’ the Time (1783–1796)), page 84:
      The Pious Club derived its name, not from any devoutness in its members, but from the pie house where they met.
    • 2002, J[ulie] V[ictoria] Jones, “At the Sign of the Blind Crow”, in A Fortress of Grey Ice (Sword of Shadows; 2), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 542:
      “But I'll give you two coppers for the dog. I can have it sold to a pie house within the hour.” Town Dog made into pie! It didn’t bear thinking about, and it very nearly made Crope never want to eat pie again.
    • 2017, John T. Edge, “Carter Country”, in The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, section “Rise of the Folk (1970s & 1980s)”, page 138:
      The Sterns, instead, saw virtue in small-town crab houses and big-city pie houses.

References

  1. ^ “pie hous, n.” under “pī(e, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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