pie house

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1. A shop that sells pies.

   The Sterns, instead, saw virtue in small-town crab houses and big-city pie houses.

   2017, John T. Edge, “Carter Country”, in The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, section “Rise of the Folk (1970s & 1980s)”, page 138

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   The Pious Club derived its name, not from any devoutness in its members, but from the pie house where they met.

   1970, Edgar Johnson, “Bubbles in Champagne (1789–1792)”, in Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, part 2 (Makin’ Himsell A’ the Time (1783–1796)), page 84

   “But I'll give you two coppers for the dog. I can have it sold to a pie house within the hour.” Town Dog made into pie! It didn’t bear thinking about, and it very nearly made Crope never want to eat pie again.

   2002, J[ulie] V[ictoria] Jones, “At the Sign of the Blind Crow”, in A Fortress of Grey Ice (Sword of Shadows; 2), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 542

   Synonyms: pieshop