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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He drew presently to Marseilles-on-Sea, and there sought lodging at the French Hostelry owned by Sir Robert and by John.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
O, 'tis a monstrous sight to see The charge of the British Hostelry, Its plunderings over aghast we go, With glances adding each long, long row!
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
It is agreeable to escape, as Henley said, into the Street of By-and-Bye, where stands the Hostelry of Never.
From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Tony had objected that she did not want anything so "schooly," and that the very fact that Jean liked the Hostelry would be proof positive that she, Tony, would not like it.
From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca
To the traveller, shivering with cold, who reaches the human Hostelry, it matters little whether he by whose side he seats himself, he who has guarded the hearth, be blind or very old.
From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred
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