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Definition of Hostelries
1. hostelry [n] - See also: hostelry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hostelries
Literary usage of Hostelries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean: The History, People, Institutions by Will Seymour Monroe (1909)
"THE author does not wish to give the notion of a necessary relationship between
hostelries, brigandage, and the Mafia; but he thinks that most travellers in ..."
2. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"Carriers' Cosmography: or A Brief Relation of The Inns, Ordinaries, hostelries,
and other lodgings in and near London; where the Carriers, Waggons, ..."
3. Social Life in the Early Republic by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1903)
"Ill HOMES AND hostelries MR. THOMAS TWINING, when, in 1796, he rode across a
tract of level country resembling an English heath and through a thick wood on ..."
4. Social England Illustrated: A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts by Andrew Lang (1903)
"... Carriers' Cosmography: or A Brief Relation of The Inns, Ordinaries, hostelries,
and other lodgings in and near London; where the Carriers, Waggons, ..."
5. Romantic Days in Old Boston: The Story of the City and of Its People During by Mary Caroline Crawford (1910)
"... OLD TIME hostelries AND THEIR STAGES IN the early days of New England x the
tavern or " ordinary," was very closely connected with the meeting-house. ..."
6. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"... and transferred their dramatic exhibitions, hitherto restricted to temporary
scaffolds in the court-yards of inns and hostelries, to the more reputable ..."
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