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public houses

n. (public house English)

Usage examples of "public houses".

It was not only riding up hills like this on horseback, but sitting in public houses somewhere, the sun shining on a stretch of grass by a canal, bread and pickles and the smell of ale, voices he could not place.

The Kemper will reduce me to beggary among the public houses of Bhrathairain for this failure, but he will not therefore spare you.

There was some smoke from the smithies and the public houses, stirred lightly by breezes from the south.

Unlike the public houses selling drinks on High Street, the Boar and Bull was a local—.