Obs. A house for the supply of chocolate as a beverage. Also attrib.
1694. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 341. The lord Cholmley and Mr. Bertie (vice-chamberlain) quarrelling yesterday at the chocolate house, went out to fight.
1695. Congreve, Love for L., I. i. A chocolate-house lampoon.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. Pref. 49. In the common Theaters, or in the Jocalat-Houses.
1724. Lond. Gaz., No. 6270/9. All Keepers of Coffee or Chocolate-Houses.
1782. V. Knox, Ess. (1819), III. clxi. 202. Seldom seen but at Newmarket and the chocolatehouse.
