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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The hostelry has just been bought by Andrew Hields, who said the pub and viaduct were "iconic".
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Norm was universal from the first time he entered the hostelry — as perpetual student and not-very-effective waitress Diane Chambers would have put it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
The originality resides in the array of talented artists who’ve been brought in to consult on and contribute to a hostelry that owes almost as much to curation as commercialism.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 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
He began to push his way toward their hostelry as best he might.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The hostelries are part of billions of dollars of development that has transformed the once-blighted South Park neighborhood, starting with the completion of then-Staples Center in 1999 and followed by the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
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
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
Could be the toast of hostelries up and down the land.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2017
If so, here was a bold and therefore dangerous criminal who openly put up at one of the most prominent hostelries.
From Final Proof or the Value of Evidence by R. Ottolengui
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