hostelry
hostelry
Definition
hos·telry (häs′təl rē)
hostelry
Usage Examples
Preposition: in
- town: The Inn is said to be haunted - as are a number of these older hostelries in the town.
Converse of object
- welcome: Fellowship in the refectory queue and around the bars of the welcoming village hostelries.
- visit: Afterward, visit a local hostelry where you can relax beside a roaring fire.
- know: We supped and at length our party moved on to a most agreeable hostelry known to all as the Variety.
- run: Mr Marklew, who has run the hostelry for the past five years, today confirmed that he was leaving the pub next week.
- name: The only named hostelry is the Red Lion Inn at the Ty'n-y-bedw end of the town.
- find: Once done, we found a local hostelry where we marked on the checkpoints over a couple of beers.
Preposition: for
- refreshment: At lunch time Tony led us out of the forest to the local hostelry for refreshment.
- lunch: After service fare is biscuits and coffee and a group of students usually go on to a local hostelry for lunch.
- beer: After the concert the band returned to Lausanne to find a local hostelry for a few post concert beers.
Adjective modifier
- nearby: Round off with a breakfast at a nearby hostelry.
- local: Many an hour can be spent outside the local hostelry watching these boats navigate the locks.
- ancient: I could really have fancied being trapped in the ancient hostelry overnight with another glass or two of the Soave.
- near: I managed to hitch a lift to the nearest hostelry, where my wife was waiting with a new tire.
- friendly: There are also a number of friendly hostelries within 5 minutes walk of the ground.
- historic: Heading further east to Wapping Wall we come to the third of the trio of historic Wapping hostelries, the Prospect of Whitby.
Noun used with modifier
- village: The Fox and Hounds remains one of the few unspoiled village hostelries nestling in glorious countryside on the edge of the North Cotswolds.
- century: Originally an 18th Century hostelry, the hotel is built around a courtyard.
- country: In the seventeenth century and later, as old pictures testify, the inn presented the usual features of a large old country hostelry.
- waterside: They are full of character with delightful shops, restaurants and waterside hostelries.
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