innholder
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of innholder
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at inn, holder
Example Sentences
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The names of the sharers are not inspiring: Thomas Sparks, merchant tailor; William Gwalter, innholder; John Fisher, barber-surgeon; Thomas Wigpitt, bricklayer; etc.
From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams
The innholder was a leading man in the community.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various
He was a German innholder, and the count a wealthy, influential French nobleman, with a proper warrant for searching his house.
From Eric or, Under the Sea by S. B. C. (Susan Blagge Caldwell) Samuels
Under these circumstances a convention, warned by the Committee of Safety of Arlington, met at Dorset, January 16, 1776, at the "house of Cephas Kent, innholder."
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
"Nay then," quoth the merchant, "thou art not for me:" "Nor," quoth the innholder, "my wife thou shalt be:" "I loathe," said the gentle, "a beggar's degree, And therefore adieu, my pretty Bessee!"
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
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