Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The keeper of an inn, hotel, nightclub, or eating establishment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A landlord or innkeeper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An innkeeper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
proprietor of ahotel orrestaurant . - noun An
innkeeper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754)
- noun the owner or manager of an inn
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Army Rumour Service 2010
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Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2007
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It had scarcely the perfunctory smile of the professional boniface.
The Flaw in the Sapphire Charles M. Snyder
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"You were right not to draw," continued the boniface with a sharp look.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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So Will turned boniface, and invited May and me to make our home with him.
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So Will turned boniface, and invited May and me to make our home with him.
Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody Wetmore, Helen C 1899
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In its extended account of the "Lane-Hope Nuptials," the Florence Kicker devoted much of the space to the part taken by the "best man" in the ceremony, "our genial and expansive boniface of the new county apartment hotel."
The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894
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Hendrik Frey, the boniface of Canajoharie, a famous fun-lover and merrymaker.
The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894
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Then the boniface hurried off to attend to some newly entered customers and the detective, greatly pleased at the prospect, found himself alone with the old servant.
The Case of the Lamp That Went Out Auguste Groner 1889
bananniethree commented on the word boniface
According to Merriam-Webster, Boniface was the innkeeper in "The Beaux' Stratagem" (1707) by George Farquhar.
November 22, 2008