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Definition of Taphouses
1. taphouse [n] - See also: taphouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taphouses
Literary usage of Taphouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by H. C. V. Leibbrandt, Jan van Riebeeck (1905)
"that his custom suffers because the policemen take their drinks in the taphouses,
... if the servants of Justice had no authority to enter the taphouses, ..."
2. Records of the Cape Colony from February 1793 [to: Copied for the Cape by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Great Britain Public Record Office (1904)
"... gambling, the opening of taphouses on the day appointed for divine worship,
has resolved to solicit Government to order that throughout the Colony the ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1863)
"... that were not cmW into execution, Mr. Bunning bid pis? of work imposed upon him.
In **f- 1855, he made a design for taphouses for the poor, ..."
4. The History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1906)
"... by young fellows who imbibed Scripture instead of wholesome British ale in
the taphouses. The new-fangled men poured vituperation upon the dumb clergy, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"... for you found yourself in a street crowded with people, talking, loitering,
or chaffering at butchers', bakers', cook-shops, taphouses, hawkers calling ..."
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