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Webster 1913 Edition

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.

hostelry ‎(plural hostelries)

an inn that provides overnight accommodation for travellers (and, originally, their horses)
the art and skill of guest management at a commercial facility such as a hotel, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or hostel; the hostelry trade, a degree in hostelry and tourism