bush-house

bush-house
   obsolete British
   a house selling intoxicants
   Often opening on fair or market days, it signalled its availability by hanging a bush outside:
    Starting from the 'Bush-house' where he had been supping too freely on the fair-ale. {EDD, quoting a source from 1886)
   Whence the proverb Good wine needs no bush.

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