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Definition of Chophouses
1. chophouse [n] - See also: chophouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chophouses
Literary usage of Chophouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1876)
"... a sort of monster chop-house; no great addition this to London, where chophouses
are certainly not among the rarer monuments of British civilization. ..."
2. In Thackeray's London by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1913)
"CHAPTER XI COVENT GARDEN WHEN describing some highly convivial scene, Thackeray
generally places his characters in one of the quaint chophouses and taverns ..."
3. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler, David Josiah Brewer (1900)
"We were soon after separately disposed of, at a more moderate profit, to
coffeehouses, chophouses, chandler shops, ..."
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