auberge
Americannoun
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auberges
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of auberge
1770–80; < French, Middle French < Provençal, Franco-Provençal aubergo hostelry, Old Provençal alberga, alberja encampment, hut, noun derivative of albergar, dissimilated form of arbergar to lodge, shelter < Vulgar Latin < East Germanic *haribergōn to shelter an armed force ( hari- army + bergōn to shelter); cf. harbinger, harbor < a West Germanic cognate of the same verb
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It can take your luggage to that night’s auberge, too.
From Washington Times ● May 21, 2019
But something else also happened in pop music at that bayside auberge a year later.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2014
A new owner, the boutique hotelier Jeff Klein, plans to spend $30 million to transform the 29-room motel into a high-end auberge.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2014
Tucked away in a valley and under the road, this old-fashioned auberge — the closest translation is “country inn” — provides a traditional welcome, and the food is first-rate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2011
A mile off, good gentleman; there is an auberge there.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
Wineries and hilltop bastides have always lured travelers to Provence, but a recent wave of modish auberges has turned the destination downright stylish.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017
Artists including Caravaggio, Mattia Preti and Favray were commissioned by the knights to embellish churches, palaces and auberges.
From US News ● Mar. 17, 2015
More than ever, the returning voyagers speak glowingly of life in Europe's countryside, of good meals and friendly people in pubs, auberges, wine gardens and pousadas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seek out country inns, auberges, Gasthãuser, bedsitters, farms, pensions, pousadas and paradores.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were carriers' inns, indeed, but I know not whether they were not, upon the whole, better, and cleaner too, than some of the town auberges.
From A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 by Philip Thicknesse
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