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hostelry

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Definition:
An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic]

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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n. an inn: in some universities an extra-collegiate hall for students.—ns.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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1. (countable) An inn that provides overnight accommodation for travellers (and, originally, their horses).
2. (uncountable) The art and skill of guest management at a commercial facility such as a hotel, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or hostel.

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"Homely brought up in a rude hostelry."

Ben Jonson.
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He kissed her with a fury which shocked the respectable hostelry.

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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