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Quotation dates: 1704
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¶MINCH-HOUSE, n. comb. An inn, ale-house, tavern. The word is found only below in an Eng. writer and may not be authentic.Lnk. 1704 Notes & Queries (1888) vi. 44:
They lay at a minch-house in the road, being a good inne for the country; for most of the public houses I mett with before in country places were no better than ale houses, which they call here minch-houses. . . . It is a sort of inne or minsh-house of considerable note kept by a farmer of great dealings.
