hosteller
Britishnoun
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a person who stays at youth hostels
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an archaic word for innkeeper
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Hosteller, an anthropologist and sociologist at Temple University, comes from an Amish background and has already demonstrated his expertise in the well-known 1963 study called Amish Society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not I for one," replied the stranger drily; "but, to cut this matter short, in the first place, I am not bound, good father, or hosteller, or whatever you are, to believe you; in the next, my orders were peremptory: I was instructed to accost the first person I met in clerical garb, and entreat him to accompany me; and, if he did not do so willingly, to compel him, as I told you before.
From Project Gutenberg
None gives himself airs in the house of Don Sileno Lorent y Valvidia, hosteller of Rosas, without paying for it!
From Project Gutenberg
It was enjoined that the hosteller, or brother in charge of the hospitium, should have “facility of expression, elegant manners, and a respectable bringing up; and if he have no substance to bestow he may at any rate exhibit a cheerful countenance and agreeable conversation, for friends are multiplied by agreeable words.”
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