hostelry

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hostelry
    n 1: a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn:
         {hostel}, {hostelry}, {inn}, {lodge}, {auberge}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hostelry \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.
   [1913 Webster]

         Come with me to the hostelry.            --Longfellow.
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