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Chop-House (A)

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An eating-house where chops and steaks are served.

John Bull … would set up a chop-house at the very gates of paradise.”—Washington Irving: vol. i. chap. vi. p. 61.

⁂ A Chinese custom-house is called a Chop-house (Hindu, chap, a stamp).

 

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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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Chloe (Kloee)
Chloe
Chœreas [Kereas]
Choice Spirit (A)
Choke
Choke-pear
Choker (A)
Chop and Chops
Chop-fallen
Chop-House (A)
Chop Logic (To)
Chops
Chops of the Channel
Chopine
Choreutæ [Korutee]
Choriambic Metre
Chouans
Choughs Protected
Chouse
Chriem-hilda or Chriem-hild