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hostelry

[hos-tl-ree] / ˈhɒs tl ri /
NOUN
lodging
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Craig Hamnett, who chairs the Wigtown Community Inn community benefit society, said it was a relief not to lose the centuries-old hostelry.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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

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

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

A wheelchair curling medal at the Winter Paralympics would crown his exceptional progress in the sport - and would certainly be celebrated in the Stranraer hostelries where he once played a very different game.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2022

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

Scouting parties were next ordered out of porters in caps, banded with silk ribbons, bearing the names of their respective hostelries.

From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith


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