First recorded in 1790–1800; from French gîte “lair, lodging,” from Old French giste, related to gésir “to reside, be situated”; see origin at gist ( def. )
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While his mother did not live there, Alex "left several times" to join her, they said - adding that the last time he came back to the gite was early this summer.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023
The gite owners said Alex, who they knew as Zach, was "part of our family".
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023
Accommodation during the race is in the local gite d’etape, a guesthouse for trekkers, or a cluster of tents in a bivouac.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2016
The country's gane clean gite wi' pride, Thomson.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
And he broke forth into a song of Pierre Dupont's:- "Savez-vous ou gite, Mai, ce joli mois?"
From New Arabian Nights by Stevenson, Robert Louis
In the dense web of highland hamlets dotting Mafate you can spend the night in a gîte, or bed-and-breakfast, where a hot meal awaits and a warm bed, too.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
Last summer, in the French Alps of Savoie, by the Italian border, I stayed somewhat accidentally in a gîte d’étape—a hostel-like guesthouse intended for hikers and bicyclists.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
On the way to the gîte after the chalets and the wood are left behind, a little path leads along the rocks of the Mont de la Brenva high above the glacier.
From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
On the third day, to-day, he would set out with Walter Hine and sleep at the gîte on the rocks in the bay to the right of the great ice-fall of the Brenva glacier.
From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
In Déroulède's fine little poem, "Bon gîte", a famished, foot-sore soldier returning home is generously entreated by a poor housewife.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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