Meaning of hôtelière | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman who owns or runs a hotel.

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Examples

“Then, having chosen to stay at La Châtre, I wrote to the hôtelière asking her to arrange to rent a bicycle for me so that I could go back and forth to Nohant.”

“Our route — and our eating and drinking — was carefully plotted for us by Christiane Giuliani, a leading hôtelière and chef of the region, and by Maryse Piergiovanni of the regional tourist office in Privas, home of the most expensive sweetmeat of all, the marron glacé.”

“The aunt’s relationship with a younger black lover echoes the situation of the ageing hôtelière and Marcel in The Comedians; […]”

“Whereas the narrator or auteur in Diderot’s novel appears to know at least some of the characters, and even at times to have been present during some of the episodes (as when the hôtelière tells her story), there is nothing to indicate that Graffigny’s éditrice knew any of the characters or the events recounted, until Déterville entrusted her with Zilia’s correspondence.”

“Etienne and the hôtelière had agreed to use her men because they were all Igbo.”

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