pantile shop

English

Etymology

In reference to the steeple-crowned or "pantile" hats of the attendees.

Noun

pantile shop (plural pantile shops)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of meetinghouse (“building where Quakers assemble for worship”).

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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