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別の表記

• pie-house, (rare) piehouse

名詞

pie-house (plural pie-houses)

1. Alternative form of pie house.
   • 1851 June 14, [Charles Manby Smith], “What Has Become of the Pieman?”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, volume XV, number 389, Edinburgh: […] William and Robert Chambers, and W[illiam] S[omerville] Orr, London, page 377, column 2:

     [T]he numberless nightly exhibitions, lecture-rooms, mechanics’ institutes, concerts, theatres and casinos, pour forth their motley hordes, of whom a large and hungry section find their way to the pie-house as the only available resource—the public-houses being shut up for the night, and the lobster-rooms, oyster saloons, ‘shades,’ ‘coal-holes,’ and ‘cider-cellars,’ too expensive for the means of the multitude.

   • 1993, Jerry MacGregor, “Week 52”, in The Family Discipleship Handbook: 365 Easy Activities to Nurture Your Child’s Spiritual Growth, Elgin, Ill.: Christian Parenting Books, Chariot Family Publishing, David C. Cook Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 135:

     Check an entire year’s worth of memory verses. Anyone that can say five of them wins a trip to a pie-house for a fancy dessert!

   • 2003, Fergus Linnane, “Race and Riots”, in London’s Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime, London: Robson Books, →ISBN, page 266:

     At the beginning of the twentieth century Walter Besant described in East London what Cockneys were eating then: salt fish for Sunday breakfast, slabs of pastry known as Nelson, the evening trade in faggots, saveloys and pease pudding, the pie-houses or ‘eel-pie saloons’ with the traditional Cockney fare of jellied eels, saveloys and hot meat pies with mashed potatoes.