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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

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

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 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

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

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

Chapels and hostelries, in the days of Pliny, rose on the banks of the Clitumnus, where the votaries easily combined pleasure with religious duty.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel




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