pie house

See also: pie-house, and piehouse

English

Interior of the Yatala Pie Shop

Alternative forms

• pie-house, (rare) piehouse

Etymology

From Middle English piehus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pie house (plural pie houses)

1. A shop that sells pies.

   Synonym: pieshop

   • 1970, Edgar Johnson, “Bubbles in Champagne (1789–1792)”, in Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, part 2 (Makin’ Himsell A’ the Time (1783–1796)), page 84:

     The Pious Club derived its name, not from any devoutness in its members, but from the pie house where they met.

   • 2002, J[ulie] V[ictoria] Jones, “At the Sign of the Blind Crow”, in A Fortress of Grey Ice (Sword of Shadows; 2), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 542:

     “But I'll give you two coppers for the dog. I can have it sold to a pie house within the hour.” Town Dog made into pie! It didn’t bear thinking about, and it very nearly made Crope never want to eat pie again.

   • 2017, John T. Edge, “Carter Country”, in The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, section “Rise of the Folk (1970s & 1980s)”, page 138:

     The Sterns, instead, saw virtue in small-town crab houses and big-city pie houses.

References

• “pie house, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• pie shop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia