hostelry
an inn or hotel.
Origin of hostelry
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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.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche | Anatole FranceThere 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 BentonOne has only to sample the war-time prices of certain hostelries to appreciate the value of this.
A Traveller in War-Time | Winston ChurchillThese buildings include many large houses, streets, and hostelries for the sick poor, who resort thither in order to be cured.
Early Travels in Palestine | Arculf et al.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
/ (ˈhɒstəlrɪ) /
archaic, or facetious an inn
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