hostelry

[hos-tl-ree]

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noun, plural hos·tel·ries.

an inn or hotel.

RELATED WORDS

hotel, caravansary, hostel

Nearby words

Origin of hostelry

1350–1400; Middle English hostelrye, variant of hostelerie < Middle French. See hostel, -ry

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Examples from the Web for hostelry

And my imitations are all in primary colours, staring colours, hot as the colours of a hostelry's sign-board!
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know|Various
The first hostelry is the Deer Park Hotel, just finished, and really admirable in accommodations.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873.|Various
In proportion as we are confined within the walls of one hostelry or one city or one state, we are provincial.
The New Freedom|Woodrow Wilson
In a half hour we were ashore and at the Occidental, a hostelry worthy of San Francisco or any other city.
Across America|James F. Rusling

A "suite" at the Central House, Bayport's one hostelry, tickled him.
Fair Harbor|Joseph Crosby Lincoln

British Dictionary definitions for hostelry

hostelry

noun plural -ries

archaic, or facetious an inn

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Word Origin and History for hostelry

hostelry

late 14c. (as a surname from early 14c.), from Old French hostelerie "house, guest-house; kitchen; hospice, almshouse" (12c., Modern French hôtellerie), from hostel (see host). Lost, then revived 19c.