Meaning of hostelrie | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The man of office then briefly acquainted them that this would be their residence till his Grace’s further orders; that they were to go to the pantry, to the buttery, to the cellar, and to the kitchen, at the usual hours, to receive⟳ the allowances becoming their station,—instructions which Adam Woodcock’s old familiarity with the court made him perfectly understand⟳—“For your beds,” he said, you must go to the hostelrie of Saint Michael’s, in respect⟳ the palace is now full of the domestics of the greater nobles.””

““Not above four leagues, sir,” replied the man: “it is but a little distance to St. Leu; and at the hostelrie there you will find⟳ all that any one can desire.””

“This hostelrie is the only one dedicated to St. Julian in all our forest chase⟳, and was a pilgrims’ inn before the times of Chaucer.”

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