"pie-house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pie-houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pie-house (plural pie-houses)
  1. Alternative form of pie house. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: pie house
    Sense id: en-pie-house-en-noun-g34-UOCX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "[T]he numberless nightly exhibitions, lecture-rooms, mechanics’ institutes, concerts, theatres and casinos, pour forth their motley hordes, of whom a large and hungry section find their way to the pie-house as the only available resource—the public-houses being shut up for the night, and the lobster-rooms, oyster saloons, ‘shades,’ ‘coal-holes,’ and ‘cider-cellars,’ too expensive for the means of the multitude.",
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          "ref": "1993, Jerry MacGregor, “Week 52”, in The Family Discipleship Handbook: 365 Easy Activities to Nurture Your Child’s Spiritual Growth, Elgin, Ill.: Christian Parenting Books, Chariot Family Publishing, David C. Cook Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 135:",
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          "ref": "2003, Fergus Linnane, “Race and Riots”, in London’s Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime, London: Robson Books, →ISBN, page 266:",
          "text": "At the beginning of the twentieth century Walter Besant described in East London what Cockneys were eating then: salt fish for Sunday breakfast, slabs of pastry known as Nelson, the evening trade in faggots, saveloys and pease pudding, the pie-houses or ‘eel-pie saloons’ with the traditional Cockney fare of jellied eels, saveloys and hot meat pies with mashed potatoes.",
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