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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

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

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

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

They deemed those hostelries places of hospitable convenience, not of lively entertainment.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle




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