hostelry
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Norm was universal from the first time he entered the hostelry — as perpetual student and not-very-effective waitress Diane Chambers would have put it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
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 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
Since everyone who will visit has been on a significant journey, step one for SVR was exceptional food and hostelry.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 14, 2017
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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The iconic Watergate Hotel, it turned out, was one of the luxury hostelries where the troops were lodging — largely a contingent from Maine.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2021
Perhaps mindful that not everyone approves of them opening, some hostelries have decided to give their Good Friday takings to charity.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2018
To make way for the 220,000-square-foot mall, workers are razing the SeaPort Marina Hotel, which had seen better days as one of the city’s finest hostelries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
On this date in 1928, The Kinney House in Globe, one of the oldest of the early Arizona hostelries and the residence of Governor George W.P.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 16, 2017
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To this day Andalusia is a country of dreamers, and Seville, despite its electric trams and motor cars, its barracks and cosmopolitan hostelries, is par excellence the city of dreams.
From Murillo by Bensusan, S. L. (Samuel Levy)