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House of call

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a place, usually a public house, where journeymen connected with a particular trade assemble when out of work, ready for the call of employers.

See also: House



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This tavern would seem to be a house of call for all the gaping idlers of the neighbourhood
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
Dobbin went to seek John Sedley at his house of call in the City, the Tapioca Coffee-house, where, since his own offices were shut up, and fate had overtaken him, the poor broken- down old gentleman used to betake himself daily, and write letters and receive them, and tie them up into mysterious bundles, several of which he carried in the flaps of his coat.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Peggotty's house of call, 'The Willing Mind', after I was in bed, and of his being afloat, wrapped in fishermen's clothes, whole moonlight nights, and coming back when the morning tide was at flood.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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