piehouse

See also: pie house and pie-house

English

Noun

piehouse (plural piehouses)

1. Rare form of pie house.
   • 1862 August 23, “Almanack and Diary”, in Fun, volume II, London: […] Charles Whyte, […], page 223, column 1:

     A Piehouse Discourse on the Philosophy of Baking will be delivered at Batter-sea.

   • 1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239:

     Now there’ll be a jackpot an’ no mistake. I’ll be desperate thataway. Like a hungry hobo locked up in a piehouse. Like a weary pilgrim who hears them pearly gates clang shut behind him . . .

   • 1975 autumn, Walter Karp, “The Golden Age of Edinburgh”, in Shirley Tomkievicz, editor, Horizon, volume XVII, number 4, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 17, column 3:

     Unconcerned, the literati continued to patronize the taverns, which also served as meeting places for a variety of clubs, ranging from the Industrious Club and the Pious Club (which convened in a piehouse) to the Sweating Club and the Spendthrift Club (members’ expenditures were limited to fivepence an evening).