Meaning of victualling house | Babel Free

Definitions

A commercial establishment at which victuals (food and beverages) are served; tavern; inn.

historical, obsolete

Examples

“[…] 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.”

“This Sykes invited him to go to one Redgate’s, a Victualling-house near the Seven Dials, to play at Skettles […]”

“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.”

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