alehouse keeper

English

Alternative forms

• ale-house keeper, ale-house-keeper, alehouse-keeper, alehousekeeper

Noun

alehouse keeper (plural alehouse keepers)

1. One who keeps an alehouse.
   • 1984 October 20, Clara Hieronymus, “Stylish Discipline Boosts Elizabethan ‘Old Debts’”, in The Tennessean, volume 79, number 197, Nashville, Tenn., page 1-D, column 6:

     Actually, there are no minor roles in Old Debts, certainly there are no minor actors. From servants to creditors (and some actors are double-cast), from alehouse keeper to parson, all create genuine individuals on stage, and make fresh theater of a vintage work.

   • 1993 October 20, “Woodcroft WI”, in The Post & Times, number 5682, page 6, column 6:

     We then listened to a most interesting and informative talk, with equally interesting slides about ordinary women in Tudor times. About their courting, “espousal” or betrothing, marriage and then tasks expected of women – spinning on horseback, being an alehouse keeper, working in the fields, the house and surprisingly marketing eggs, cheese and butter.

   • 2017, Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1700, New York, N.Y., London: Pegasus Books, →ISBN, page 68:

     Innkeepers, alehouse keepers and victuallers rarely obtain the freedom of the city, having a separate licensing system.

Synonyms

• alekeep
• alekeeper