piehouse
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[edit]Noun
[edit]piehouse (plural piehouses)
- Rare form of pie house.
- 1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239:
- 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 . . .
- 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:
- 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).