Definitions

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  • noun A Portuguese inn.

Etymologies

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From Portuguese pousada.

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Examples

  • But 350 years later, there wasn't so much call for that; Macau's tourism department helped convert the fort into the hotel — "pousada" is Portuguese for "inn" — which opened in 1981.

    Rooms With a Past 2008

  • There is a small bar on the cape head itself and tourists can stay at the "pousada" on the headland.

    Purpleocity.net 2009

  • The perfect day here: Take a boat to a small island or deserted beach near Angra, have lunch and a caipirinha there with friends, then come back to Paraty for art and music and a night at a 10-room pousada.

    Steal the Scene Darrell Hartman 2012

  • From two nights in Nazare and one big Portugal win over England, watched on a big screen in the town square, to one night in a beautiful pousada in Sintra.

    Five Years Ago Today Kit Pollard 2009

  • From two nights in Nazare and one big Portugal win over England, watched on a big screen in the town square, to one night in a beautiful pousada in Sintra.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Kit Pollard 2009

  • I stayed in a lovely little pousada, appropriately named, Villa of the Water translated.

    Archive 2009-03-01 DNLee 2009

  • I stayed in a lovely little pousada, appropriately named, Villa of the Water translated.

    Wordless Wednesday: Blue Oceans, Blue Skies DNLee 2009

  • They had lunch at the pousada overlooking the beach at Sag res.

    Heidelberg Wedding Neels, Betty 1984

  • In the midst of all this, and just a few blocks from Paulista Avenue, is this pretty pousada, or guest house, with its rustic design.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • It's more of a hostel than a pousada, with dormitory accommodation offered alongside small individual rooms and doubles.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Monsanto is a mountain village with houses built into rock formations and a fabulous pousada – inn – with a superb restaurant.

    ‘Straight out of a fairytale’: Portugal’s best towns and villages, by readers Guardian readers 2021

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