ˈeating-house
A house for eating, esp. one in which meals are supplied ready dressed; a cook's shop, restaurant.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 143 Etynge howse, pransorium. 1673 Dryden Marr. à la Mode iv. iv, An eating house. Bottles of wine on the table. 1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. xiii, To dine at an eating-house. 1805 N. Nicholls Let. in Corr. Gray (1843) 49 He dined generally alone, and was served from an eating-house..in Jermyn Street. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 237 A third had stepped into an eating house in Covent Garden. |