ale house
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.68 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of alehouse.
Example Sentences
- "Though not so exact in their observances of Sunday as the Glasgovians, Bradford people would never encourage laziness nor tolerate drunkenness, and as early as the seventeenth century they suppressed the greater part of the ale houses and set the loafers to work."
- "Each of Martin’s chapters is told through a different character’s perspective, allowing the reader to follow the story not from an omniscient fairy-tale narrator but in a voice that feels true to the time. The locales of Westeros aren’t airy glades, fields or castles in the sky; they are brothels and ale houses full of dark and grimy corners."
- "“You’re not going to start doing food, are you?” asked all the men who propped up the bar. “No,” said my dad. “We’re happy being just an ale house.” […] I wonder how I’d write the corona chapter. I suppose nobody knows that yet. I only hope that the Bell and Crown and all the ale houses like it find a way to survive."