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  • noun Plural form of hostelry.

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Examples

  • Coventry University students heard on Friday from a well-placed observer who was there in the Altitude bar in Queenstown that fateful September night with Mike Tindall, dwarves, blondes and much alcohol; and also with the "team" in other hostelries on other nights.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • " 'Which one is Buddy Lewis?' hotel clerks whisper furtively as the Nats check in at the different hostelries."

    Buddy Lewis, Nats star and WWII pilot, dies at 94 2011

  • Meadows with six hostelries, each a day's hike from the last.

    John Muir 2010

  • To travel from Glasgow to Manchester by train you would come through Wigan in any case, and two years ago, when Rangers reached the Uefa Cup final at the City of Manchester Stadium, Wigan hostelries were inundated with requests from Scotland for catering and rest facilities, so much so that the then JJB Stadium voluntarily opened up its main function room to supply the demand and make a bit of extra cash.

    Giant screens at Wigan could keep Rangers fans out of trouble 2010

  • Frankly, the longer one has endured what passes for life on this so-called good earth the more one wearies of the boozed-up, back-slapping amateurs who infest hostelries tonight insisting that all's for the best in this the best of all possible worlds.

    Happy New Year! 2009

  • Frankly, the longer one has endured what passes for life on this so-called good earth the more one wearies of the boozed-up, back-slapping amateurs who infest hostelries tonight insisting that all's for the best in this the best of all possible worlds.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Frankly, the longer one has endured what passes for life on this so-called good earth the more one wearies of the boozed-up, back-slapping amateurs who infest hostelries tonight insisting that all's for the best in this the best of all possible worlds.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The premises that I had earmarked for a lovely big bookshop in Tavistock has been snaffled by Witherspoon's pub chain (rents so astronomical we knew it would be something national) which will bring the total number of hostelries in a very small, concentrated market town centre area well into double figures.

    In Other Words 2007

  • Frankly, the longer one has endured what passes for life on this so-called good earth the more one wearies of the boozed-up, back-slapping amateurs who infest hostelries tonight insisting that all's for the best in this the best of all possible worlds.

    Happy New Year! 2009

  • There were no hostelries for Jewish travelers in Yemen.

    Yemen and the Yishuv. 2009

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