Meaning of pie-house | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“[T]he numberless nightly exhibitions, lecture-rooms, mechanics’ institutes, concerts, theatres and casinos, pour forth their motley hordes, of whom a large and hungry section find their way to the pie-house as the only available resource—the public-houses being shut up for the night, and the lobster-rooms, oyster saloons, ‘shades,’ ‘coal-holes,’ and ‘cider-cellars,’ too expensive for the means of the multitude.”

“Check an entire year’s worth of memory verses. Anyone that can say five of them wins a trip to a pie-house for a fancy dessert!”

“At the beginning of the twentieth century Walter Besant described in East London what Cockneys were eating then: salt fish for Sunday breakfast, slabs of pastry known as Nelson, the evening trade in faggots, saveloys and pease pudding, the pie-houses or ‘eel-pie saloons’ with the traditional Cockney fare of jellied eels, saveloys and hot meat pies with mashed potatoes.”

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