hostelry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
    lodge; auberge; inn; hostel.

WordNet

Hos"tel*ry noun
Etymology
OE. hostelrie, hostelrye, ostelrie, OF. hostelerie, fr. hostel. See Hostel.
Definitions
  1. An inn; a lodging house. Archaic Chaucer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson.
    Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

Webster 1913