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
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
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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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They deemed those hostelries places of hospitable convenience, not of lively entertainment.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle