Beef-house
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of beefhouse.; slaughterhouse
"... this man's case, and he informed me then that it was used as a slaughter-house, and I then rode over and inspected the place, found a small corral or inclosure, also a log house and one small building which I supposed was the beef-house."
- 2 Alternative form of beefhouse.; steakhouse
"Once, I remember carrying my own bread (which I had brought from home in the morning) under my arm, wrapped in a piece of paper, like a book, and going to a famous alamode beef-house near Drury Lane, and ordering a 'small plate' of that delicacy to eat with it."
Example
More examples"... this man's case, and he informed me then that it was used as a slaughter-house, and I then rode over and inspected the place, found a small corral or inclosure, also a log house and one small building which I supposed was the beef-house."
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