Middle English Dictionary Entry
hostelrīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hostelrīe n. Also ostelrie, h)ostelerie. |
| Etymology | OF h)ostelerie |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An inn; holden an ~, to keep an inn; (b) the guest house of a monastery; (c) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.718 : Assembled was this compaignye In Southwerk at this gentil hostelrye That highte the Tabard.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3203 : A chambre hadde he in that hostelrye [vrr. ostelrye, hostellerie] Allone.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4184 : Ech of hem gooth to his hostelrye [vrr. ostellerye, ostelerye] And took his loggyng.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.440 : Thilke that holden hostelries [vr. hosteleries] sustenen the thefte of hire hostilers.
b
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)193 : J sigh also ostelrye [F hostelerie] ther inne bi that oon side and fermerye. To the ostelrye [F A l'ostel] j wente..thinkinge to herberwe me there.
c
- (1315) Pat.R.Edw.II250 : Thomas del Ostelrye.