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Pantile Shop

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A meeting-house, from the fact that dissenting chapels were often roofed with pantiles. Hence pantile was used in the sense of dissenting. Mrs. Centlivre, in the Gortiam Election, contrasts the pantile crew with a good churchman.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Pantagruel
Pantagruelion
Pantagruelion Herb (The)
Pantaloon
Pantechnicon
Panthea
Panthea (Greek)
Pantheon
Panther
Panthera
Pantile Shop
Pantomime
Panton Gates
Pantry. (French, paneteric
Panurge
Panyer Stone (The)
Pap
Papa, Father
Papal Slippers (The)
Paper
Paper a House (To)