victualling house

== English == === Noun === victualling house (plural victualling houses) (obsolete, historical) A commercial establishment at which victuals (food and beverages) are served; tavern; inn. 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183,[2] Nor was there on all this Ground, so much as one Inn or Victualling-House, therein to refresh the feebler sort. 1824, Laws of Harvard College, for the Use of Students, Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, Chapter VI. Misdemeanors and criminal offences, p. 15,[4] (2.) Making or being present at any festive entertainment […] or going into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge for the purpose of eating or drinking.