ale house

plural ale houses

1. alternativeAlternative form of alehouse.

   Though not so exact in their observances of Sunday as the Glasgovians, Bradford people would never encourage laziness nor tolerate drunkenness, and as early as the seventeenth century they suppressed the greater part of the ale houses and set the loafers to work.

   1883 February 14, Robert P[ercival] Porter, “Industrial England. […] X. History of the Bradford Worsted Manufacture.”, in New-York Tribune, volume XLII, number 13,240, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 1

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   Each of Martin’s chapters is told through a different character’s perspective, allowing the reader to follow the story not from an omniscient fairy-tale narrator but in a voice that feels true to the time. The locales of Westeros aren’t airy glades, fields or castles in the sky; they are brothels and ale houses full of dark and grimy corners.

   2018 October 15, Charles Yu, “George R. R. Martin, Fantasy’s Reigning King”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2018

   “You’re not going to start doing food, are you?” asked all the men who propped up the bar. “No,” said my dad. “We’re happy being just an ale house.” […] I wonder how I’d write the corona chapter. I suppose nobody knows that yet. I only hope that the Bell and Crown and all the ale houses like it find a way to survive.

   2020 June 28, Cathy Rentzenbrink, “Gossips, snacks and the odd proposal: why I loved growing up in a real pub”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2020