wine vault

English

Noun

wine vault (plural wine vaults)

1. A vault where wine is stored.
2. A place where wine is served at a bar, or at tables; a dramshop.
   • 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Making a night of it”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:

     they went into a wine-vault, to get materials for assisting them in making a night; where they found a good many young ladies, and various old gentlemen, and a plentiful sprinkling of hackney-coachmen and cab-drivers, all drinking and talking together