hostelry
Americannoun
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hostelries
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of hostelry
1350–1400; Middle English hostelrye, variant of hostelerie < Middle French. See hostel, -ry
Example Sentences
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"These kinds of investments revitalise the area, they revitalise the construction sector, hostelry," says local man Manuel Martín.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
It took about a decade to plan and build the Santa Monica hostelry, and the 148-room Downtown L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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
Since everyone who will visit has been on a significant journey, step one for SVR was exceptional food and hostelry.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 14, 2017
He began to push his way toward their hostelry as best he might.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
A wheelchair curling medal at the Winter Paralympics would crown his exceptional progress in the sport - and would certainly be celebrated in the Stranraer hostelries where he once played a very different game.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2022
The iconic Watergate Hotel, it turned out, was one of the luxury hostelries where the troops were lodging — largely a contingent from Maine.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2021
To make way for the 220,000-square-foot mall, workers are razing the SeaPort Marina Hotel, which had seen better days as one of the city’s finest hostelries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
On this date in 1928, The Kinney House in Globe, one of the oldest of the early Arizona hostelries and the residence of Governor George W.P.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 16, 2017
Scouting parties were next ordered out of porters in caps, banded with silk ribbons, bearing the names of their respective hostelries.
From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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