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hotel
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a place where alcoholic beverages are sold by the glass.
See: beer parlo(u)r
Many of these establishments meet only the minimal requirements for accommodation under the provincial liquor laws.
Quotations
1825
New and spacious hotels, at short distances have taken the place of small log hut beer houses.
1888
. . . here every pothouse calls itself an "hotel," and most of the first-rate hotels are dignified by the title of "house."
1935
Something like 90 per cent of the hotels are in favor of abolishing the regulation and bringing about a situation where men and their wives can sit down together as they do elsewhere.
1963
After the hotel closed, we went out for coffee.