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free house
noun
, British.
- a tavern that, having no affiliation or contract with a particular brewery, serves several brands of beer, ale, etc.
free house
noun
- a public house not bound to sell only one brewer's products
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Word History and Origins
Origin of free house1
First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences
An added bonus, quips the former Marine: “I have the most mine-free house in the entire state of Virginia.”
From The Daily Beast
For this work the wages are about thirty-five pounds sterling a year with double rations, a free house, use of cow, &c.
From Project Gutenberg
The projecting sign proclaims it to be that now rare thing among inns, a Free House.
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Their support has been made quite ample, having an average salary of a hundred pounds, with a free house.
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A brewery will pay almost any sum to secure a free house in such a position.
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The poor child was so unhappy at being a slave and no doubt had first seen the light in a free-house.
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