parador
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of parador
1835–45; < Spanish: wayside inn, hostelry, equivalent to par ( ar ) to stop ( see parade) + -ador -ator
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We stayed in a parador in Mérida that had been a convent in the eighteenth century.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
Concha, the pretty brunette of the parador, had heard the old, old story from his lips, and he had found favour in her eyes.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
I passed through, into the town, looking right and left for a parador, an hostelry whereat to leave my horse.
From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
That turned out to be right, and I scored an early check-in at the very reasonably priced $65 a night Boquemar, one of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company’s official listof paradores, small hotels and inns.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2010
Seek out country inns, auberges, Gasthãuser, bedsitters, farms, pensions, pousadas and paradores.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spain, like Portugal, has a superlative nationwide network of state-owned inns, called paradores, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hotel, whose rooms are spread out over several caves, had the one-of-a-kind glamour of the paradors that occupy former monasteries and fortresses in Spain.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
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