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One that lodges or entertains guests or strangers.

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Usage examples (11)
  • They came to her in the cutting voice of Patience Bittner, a sophisticated hosteler she'd known on Isle Royale.
  • No hosteler or herbergeour might entertain a stranger longer than a day and a night, unless he undertook to answer for his guest's behaviour, and he was left in no...
  • Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better...
  • Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been...
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