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ale-bush en · NOUN
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(archaic) a tavern sign.
for I might haue had a pumpe set vp with as good Marche beere as this was, and nere set vp an ale-bush for the matter.
1599, Henry Porter, “The Two Angry Women of Abingdon”, in Kind-heart's Dream: Containing Five Apparitions with Their Invectives, published 1841, page 102:Copernicus grinned amorously at the ruddy stout damsel who stood, presenting arms akimbo, under the ale-bush in the latticed porch.
1902, James Henry Yoxall, The Rommany Stone, page 101:The place was really no more than a cottage, wattle-daubed walls and a thatched roof with an ale bush pushed under the eaves.
2004, P. C. Doherty, The Hangman's Hymn: The Carpenter's Tale of Mystery and Murder, page 48:
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