winehall
nounEtymology From wine + hall.
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A winehouse (communal feasting hall where the lord and his retainers gathered for drinking, gift-giving, storytelling, celebration, etc.).
- I have never heard tell of so many tribes as came to the winehall that night! I never saw so many great chieftains surrounded by so many brave warriors!1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 32: