Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inn; a hostel.
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Examples
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Bras-de-Fer's rude palace; and instead of the prison and the hostage-house, there are the Hôtel de Ville, now more than five hundred years old, from whose windows the Counts of Flanders swore obedience to the statutes and privileges of the town, the Palais de Justice, and the dark crypt beneath the chapel which shelters the mysterious Relic of the Holy Blood.
Bruges and West Flanders Am��d��e Forestier 1887
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