Word Finder - hostelry

definition

An inn that provides overnight accommodation for travellers (and, originally, their horses).

definition

The art and skill of guest management at a commercial facility such as a hotel, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or hostel.

example

a degree in hostelry and tourism

Afterward, visit a local hostelry where you can relax beside a roaring fire.

Many an hour can be spent outside the local hostelry watching these boats navigate the locks.

I could really have fancied being trapped in the ancient hostelry overnight with another glass or two of the Soave.

Three large rooms were assigned to them in the monastery hostelry, one of which was occupied by Prince Andrew.

The Palace, an enormous structure covering a city block (it had 1200 rooms and cost more than $3,000,000), known as the oldest and most famous hostelry of the city, and architecturally interesting, was completely destroyed by the fire, but has been replaced by a new building.

Mr Marklew, who has run the hostelry for the past five years, today confirmed that he was leaving the pub next week.

The only named hostelry is the Red Lion Inn at the Ty'n-y-bedw end of the town.

Once done, we found a local hostelry where we marked on the checkpoints over a couple of beers.

I managed to hitch a lift to the nearest hostelry, where my wife was waiting with a new tire.

Originally an 18th century hostelry, the hotel is built around a courtyard.

In the seventeenth century and later, as old pictures testify, the inn presented the usual features of a large old country hostelry.

You'll find its not so much an Esquires Bar as an old hostelry, and you'll find the whole place so restful.

Also in Old San Juan is the El Convento Hotel, a unique Spanish Colonial bulding that was once a convent and is now an upscale hostelry with a traditional Spanish center courtyard.

Grand Guest House - 1116 Grinnell St.; Key West, FL 33040;(305) 294-0590;(888) 947-2630 - Located in the heart of the island's Old Town, this hostelry has been voted the "best bargain in Key West" by Frommer's Budget Travel Magazine.

It is first mentioned in 1322, was bought with the adjacent hostelry in 1405 by the city and rearranged as a town hall, and has since, from time to time, been enlarged by the purchase of adjoining patrician houses, forming a complex of buildings of various styles and dates surmounted by a clock tower.