hostelry
Americannoun
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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But grief of the legion of The Crooked House lovers would quickly turn to anger when less than 48 hours after the blaze, on 5 August 2023, the hostelry was demolished overnight.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024
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
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
The ghost Ari-Eil had told them—or been compelled by Minya to tell them—that the faranji were to be housed at the Merchants’ Guildhall, where a wing had been outfitted as a hostelry just for them.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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