hostelry
an inn or hotel.
Origin of hostelry
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How to use hostelry in a sentence
My friend Tom, an inveterate New York-Florida driver, tells me that the finest hostelry on the route is a Hampton Inn.
We revelled in its resemblance, or its fancied resemblance to the famous old hostelry kept by old John Willet.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowBy noon they had reached Voiron, and here, at a quiet hostelry, they descended to pause awhile for rest and refreshment.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniThere was a fire burning in the general-room of the hostelry, and Garnache went to warm him at its cheerful blaze.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniWe must now be supposed to have reached the entrance of the hostelry, for indeed it was a Covent Garden tavern and nothing more.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian Sharman
So by wood and mere and sighing reed we pass with many a twist and turn until we reach the hostelry of Horning Ferry.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.
British Dictionary definitions for hostelry
/ (ˈhɒstəlrɪ) /
archaic, or facetious an inn
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