Meanings
noungillhouse (plural gillhouses)
plural gillhouses
- historicalobsoleteA shop where gill (the drink) is sold.
Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn.
1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC
Origin
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