noun
- plural of pothouse; taverns or public houses, especially cheap or disreputable drinking establishments
Usage: archaic; British
Examples
- The sailors frequented the pothouses near the docks.
- Victorian reformers campaigned against the proliferation of pothouses in working-class neighborhoods.
- He spent his evenings in the local pothouses, drinking away his wages.
- The town council sought to regulate the pothouses that had sprung up along the main road.
- Many pothouses served as informal meeting places for laborers after work.
- The temperance movement targeted pothouses as sources of social problems.