Meaning of ale-drapery | Babel Free

Definitions

The running of an alehouse.

obsolete

Examples

“and fare at all tymes as harde as poor Mopos Cut⟳ did with his maisters contreyman in Shorditch, till, by the force⟳ of his hinder heeles, he vtterly vndid two milch maydens that had set⟳ vp a shoppe of Ale-drapery.”

“An ale-house keeper would “with a grave air complain⟳ that trade⟳ was not sufficiently encouraged, when he meant the trade⟳ of ale drapery and smoking tobacco'.””

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