Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hall or room in which guests are received.
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Examples
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Cadfael had caught glimpses of Lady Prestcote about the court, moving between the guest-hall and the church, where her husband lay in the mortuary chapel, swathed for his burial.
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She made haste to collect her son and her maid, and make ready to move to the greater comfort of the abbey guest-hall, ready for her lord's coming, and Hugh conducted them there and went to confer with the abbot about the morrow's visit.
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It was chilly out there, and this was men's business now the civilities were properly attended to, and Lady Prestcote had made her farewells and withdrawn with Melicent into the guest-hall.
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Edmund and Cadfael withdrew from the bedside when the two women came in haste and tears from the guest-hall, Sybilla stumbling blindly on Hugh's arm.
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The young man who was now virtually sheriff set off with the lady and her daughter, to conduct them again to the porch of the guest-hall.
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It was the quietest hour of the day; even the comings and goings about the guest-hall were few at this time of year, though with the spring the countryside would soon be on the move again.
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'Our guest-hall and all we have is open to you, and your neighbours who have done you such good service are equally welcome.
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I will bespeak a bed for him in the infirmary there, and see his wife and children into the guest-hall to be near him.
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They were sitting in the earl's apartment in the guest-hall, facing each other across a small table, with wine passing amiably between them, and a curtained door closed and shrouded against the world.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
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Even the schoolboys were out whispering and chirruping together under the wall of the gatehouse, and travellers crowded into the doorway of the guest-hall.
Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992
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