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hotelkeeper

[ hoh-tel-kee-per ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30; hotel + keeper

Or should a fundamentalist hotelkeeper be able to refuse a room to an unmarried couple?

"This Crowden was very friendly with one or two of the men around the stables," went on the hotelkeeper.

The portrait sketched by the wine-vendor fully corresponded with the description given by the hotelkeeper in the Rue de Helder.

Mary Louise regarded the hotelkeeper with contempt, thinking again how stingy he was.

“Nothing like going right to the point, Jane,” she remarked when the hotelkeeper had turned away.

It was Kitty Carter, the daughter of the hotelkeeper at Boomville, who owned the claim that the partners had mutually coveted.

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