hostelry

[ hos-tl-ree ]
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noun,plural hos·tel·ries.
  1. an inn or hotel.

Origin of hostelry

1
1350–1400; Middle English hostelrye, variant of hostelerie<Middle French. See hostel, -ry

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How to use hostelry in a sentence

  • T is the finest part of the city and the merriest, for the best hostelries are in the Place Baudet and thereabout.

  • There is much of interest in the life of the times, the duels, the gambling, the coaches and quaint inns and hostelries.

    The Complete Club Book for Women | Caroline French Benton
  • One has only to sample the war-time prices of certain hostelries to appreciate the value of this.

    A Traveller in War-Time | Winston Churchill
  • These buildings include many large houses, streets, and hostelries for the sick poor, who resort thither in order to be cured.

  • Of course he had rejected, as unreasonable, the supposition that he might really meet Gradiva in one of the two hostelries.

    Delusion and Dream | Wilhelm Jensen

British Dictionary definitions for hostelry

hostelry

/ (ˈhɒstəlrɪ) /


nounplural -ries
  1. archaic, or facetious an inn

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