English

Noun

hotelkeeper ‎(plural hotelkeepers)

1. A hotelier, a hotel owner.
   • 1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free:

     The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail.

   • 1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty:

     Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, "Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little."