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hostelry

[hos-tl-ree] / ˈhɒs tl ri /
NOUN
lodging
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A multitude of nations were represented in this local hostelry.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

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

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 shockwaves over the demolition continue to reverberate, with pub lovers nominating 65 hostelries, including 15 in the West Midlands, to be preserved.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2024

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

To this day Andalusia is a country of dreamers, and Seville, despite its electric trams and motor cars, its barracks and cosmopolitan hostelries, is par excellence the city of dreams.

From Murillo by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan




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