Hostelry

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:12:37

Hos"tel*ry (?), n. [OE. hostelrie, hostelrye, ostelrie, OF. hostelerie, fr. hostel. See Hostel.]

An inn; a lodging house.

[Archaic] Chaucer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson.

Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

 

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