guesthouse

Definitions

1. A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
2. A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.

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Examples

“The wine house and the guest house were hung with curtains shining bright against the wooden walls.”

“Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect⟳ steep price hikes (except at the backpackers) and book ahead.”

“For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place⟳ next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.”

“And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive⟳, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want⟳ to lounge on the second-story deck and watch⟳ dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.”

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