See quotations.
1858. Rum I take to be the name which unwashed moralists apply alike to the product distilled from molasses and the noblest juices of the vineyard. Burgundy “in all its sunset glow” is rum…. Sir, I repudiate the loathsome vulgarism as an insult to the first miracle wrought by the Founder of our religion!—Holmes, ‘The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,’ ch. viii.
1863. There is, in a village, a rum-hole, which is destroying the peace and happiness of the community.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxviii. 139 (Feb.).
1872. The State of New York alone, we believe, uses the term rum-holes for its smaller grog-shops.—de Vere.
