hotelkeeper
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hotelkeeper
Example Sentences
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Riad al-Turk was born in Homs on April 17, 1930, to Mohammed Ali Turk, a local hotelkeeper who died when Riad was very young, and his wife, Amina, a woman of limited means.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
The hotelkeeper interfered at the last moment and the cream landed on Rep. Stevenson.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2016
They discuss a deserter, his connection to the eponymous Auckland hotelkeeper, and his death in a Bulawayo teak forest, burned to charcoal by lightning.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
The Russians ordered all cars cleared out of the hotel garage to make room for General Shtykov's cars; the harried hotelkeeper refused because General Hodge kept his own car there.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hotelkeeper brings him bread and cheese in a basket made from dark wicker, covered nicely with a cotton napkin: everything shipshape.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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