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English
Noun
victualling house (plural victualling houses)
- (obsolete, historical) A commercial establishment at which food and beverages are served; tavern; inn.
1617, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Book 5, Chapter 5, Section 8, p. 695:[…] when Antiochus lay feasting at Chalcis after his marriage, and his souldiors betooke themselues to Riot, as it had beene in a time of great security: a good man of war might haue cut all their throates, euen as they were tipling in their victualing houses […]
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183,
- Nor was there on all this Ground, so much as one Inn or Victualling-House, therein to refresh the feebler sort.
- 1824, Laws of Harvard College, for the Use of Students, Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, Chapter VI. Misdemeanors and criminal offences, p. 15,
- (2.) Making or being present at any festive entertainment or going into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge for the purpose of eating or drinking.