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hostelry

[hos-tl-ree] / ˈhɒs tl ri /
NOUN
lodging
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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

It took about a decade to plan and build the Santa Monica hostelry, and the 148-room Downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 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

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

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

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

From BBC Apr. 6, 2017

He particularizes the facility and safety of travelling, and the convenient, but at the same time rigid surveillance of the hostelries, in which a register was kept of all strangers who lodged in them.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza




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