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hostelry

[hos-tl-ree] / ˈhɒs tl ri /
NOUN
lodging
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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 originality resides in the array of talented artists who’ve been brought in to consult on and contribute to a hostelry that owes almost as much to curation as commercialism.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022

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

He began to push his way toward their hostelry as best he might.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The hostelries are part of billions of dollars of development that has transformed the once-blighted South Park neighborhood, starting with the completion of then-Staples Center in 1999 and followed by the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

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

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

Could be the toast of hostelries up and down the land.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2017

Never put up for the night at little hostelries, but always stop at the largest inns.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones


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