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victualling house

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical, obsolete

Examples

  • 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.

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