hostelry
Americannoun
plural
hostelriesnoun
Etymology
Origin of hostelry
1350–1400; Middle English hostelrye, variant of hostelerie < Middle French. See hostel, -ry
Example Sentences
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Norm was universal from the first time he entered the hostelry — as perpetual student and not-very-effective waitress Diane Chambers would have put it.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
Craig Hamnett, who chairs the Wigtown Community Inn community benefit society, said it was a relief not to lose the centuries-old hostelry.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
The originality resides in the array of talented artists who’ve been brought in to consult on and contribute to a hostelry that owes almost as much to curation as commercialism.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022
The Sun reported the military commission that heard the testimony was housed in the Eutaw House, then a prominent Eutaw Street hostelry near today’s Hippodrome Theatre.
From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2020
He began to push his way toward their hostelry as best he might.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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