noun

• A place where alcoholic drinks, especially beer, were available on tap; a public house.

  ‘Heminges probably owned the taphouse which adjoined the first Globe.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘For mine own part, I never come into any room in a taphouse, but I am drawn in.’
  • ‘Numerous reports were made of beer being served in taphouses while divine service was under way in the church.’
  • ‘His custom suffers because the policemen take their drinks in the taphouses.’
  • ‘In 1756 a certain Thomas Gresham died from injuries sustained in a fight which began in the taphouse but, remarkably enough, the City records contain no other references to such drunken brawls.’

  Synonyms

  tavern, bar, hostelry, taproom