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n. - Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.

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  • As far as I can tell, the term "pothouse" chiefly meant a tavern, but was sometimes used to describe a building in which pottery was made.
  • British Empire as you will see any afternoon in this remote pothouse.
  • I think pothouse is a place wherein the fishermen keep their wicker lobster pots, wicker fish pots and etc.
  • "I'd felt the opening of the Void, and you could hardly have gotten bruised that way brawling in a pothouse."
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