chophouseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

chop +‎ house. For Chinese customs sense, see chop (“quality”).

名詞

chophouse (複数形 chophouses)

1. (now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
   • 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 231:

     Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.

   • 1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16:

     But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.