piehouse

plural piehouses

1. rareRare form of pie house.

   A Piehouse Discourse on the Philosophy of Baking will be delivered at Batter-sea.

   1862 August 23, “Almanack and Diary”, in Fun, volume II, London: […] Charles Whyte, […], page 223, column 1

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   Now there’ll be a jackpot an’ no mistake. I’ll be desperate thataway. Like a hungry hobo locked up in a piehouse. Like a weary pilgrim who hears them pearly gates clang shut behind him . . .

   1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239

   Unconcerned, the literati continued to patronize the taverns, which also served as meeting places for a variety of clubs, ranging from the Industrious Club and the Pious Club (which convened in a piehouse) to the Sweating Club and the Spendthrift Club (members’ expenditures were limited to fivepence an evening).

   1975 autumn, Walter Karp, “The Golden Age of Edinburgh”, in Shirley Tomkievicz, editor, Horizon, volume XVII, number 4, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 17, column 3