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Webster 1913 Edition

Hostelry

Hos′tel-ry

,

Noun.

[OE.

hostelrie

,

hostelrye

,

ostelrie

, OF.

hostelerie

, fr.

hostel

. See

.]

An inn; a lodging house.

[Archaic]

Chaucer.

“Homely brought up in a rude hostelry.”

B. Jonson.

Come with me to the

hostelry

.

Longfellow.