draft house

English

Noun

draft house (plural draft houses)

1. Alternative form of drafthouse
   • 2001, Filmmaker - Volumes 9-11, page 90:

     It also helped that the festival's main venue was the 250-seat Enzian Theater, an endearing hybrid of cinema, draft house and cappuccino art venue that makes sipping a beer while watching the story of a folksinging lesbian Tupperware lady (Lisa Udelson's Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic) seem perfectly natural.

   • 2006, Indiana Beverage Journal - Volume 62, Issue 2, page 210:

     Sandra Roeder said she lost at least a couple thousand dollars in fees when Butera didn't submit her paperwork for a new draft house she is opening and when the company didn't take care of the money owed to the city and county by her current bar.

   • 2008, Sean Carswell, Train Wreck Girl: A Novel:

     Remember when there used to be a movie theater there. A draft house. The place that would sell you beer when you were only fifteen years old.