Meanings
plural drafthouses
- A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.
Going to Tiffany's on Young Circle in Hollywood for the 3-for-1's, open 'til 3 AM, now a cinema and drafthouse.
2000, Michael Ketover, How to Be a Better Birder: Travel Stories, page 1472 more examples
Music and singing, shouts and laughter came from many of the buildings they passed—inns and drafthouses and restaurants alive with the lives of ordinary people who had toiled all day in the sun.
2007, Christopher Golden, The BorderkindAs for a winery effect on the Roseburg drafthouse (besides selling draft wine), he usually has a wine barrel-aged number available in a cask-conditioned firkin, like the red wine-aged Stock Ale I really dug.
2014, Brian Yaeger, Oregon Breweries, page 351
Origin
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