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hotel Informal

• n. a place where alcoholic beverages are sold by the glass.

  See also: beer parlo(u)r  

  • Many of these establishments meet only the minimal requirements for accommodation under the provincial liquor laws.

  • 1825  New and spacious hotels, at short distances have taken the place of small log hut beer houses.
  • 1888  . . . here every pothouse calls itself an "hotel," and most of the first-rate hotels are dignified by the title of "house."
  • 1935  Something like 90 per cent of the hotels are in favor of abolishing the regulation and bringing about a situation where men and their wives can sit down together as they do elsewhere.
  • 1963  After the hotel closed, we went out for coffee.