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hedge alehouse

noun

Etymology

From hedge (“third-rate”) + alehouse (“inn, tavern”). Compare hedge priest, hedge whore.

Definitions

  1. An inferior inn or tavern.

    • HEDGE ALEHOUSE, a ſmall obſcure alehouſe.
    • ‘Where is your warrant, if you come to that?’ said I. ‘My papers! A likely thing that I would show my papers on the ipse dixit of an unknown fellow in a hedge alehouse!’

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