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drafthouse

noun

Etymology

From draft + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as drafthouse — “draft + house”

Definitions

  1. A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are…

    A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.

    • Going to Tiffany's on Young Circle in Hollywood for the 3-for-1's, open 'til 3 AM, now a cinema and drafthouse.
    • Music and singing, shouts and laughter came from many of the buildings they passed—inns and drafthouses and restaurants alive with the lives of ordinary people who had toiled all day in the sun.
    • As for a winery effect on the Roseburg drafthouse (besides selling draft wine), he usually has a wine barrel-aged number available in a cask-conditioned firkin, like the red wine-aged Stock Ale I really dug.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA