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guest house
[OE. ᵹiest-hús = Du. gasthuis, G. gasthaus: see guest n. and house.]
†1. An inn. Obs.
c1000Apollonius (1834) 18 Gan we secean ure ᵹesthus. a1100Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 337/8 Hospitium, ᵹæsthus. c1200Ormin 7040 Gode menness herrtess..sinndenn þatt haliȝhe gessthus Þatt crist iss borenn inne.
2. a. A house or apartment for the reception or entertainment of strangers or guests. Also attrib.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark xiv. 14 Hwar is min ᵹyst-hus [Coverdale gest house, A.V. guest chamber]? c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2364 Þe thak of his gest house rygg. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xiii. (1810) 369 That..had bin in the Ghest-house amongst them. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. vii. 312 One day a Scot from Connaught..was received at the guest house. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 309 Yet is it still the tale I then heard told Within the guest-house of that minster-close. 1883C. J. Wills Mod. Persia 357 Put up in the guest-house of the shrine.
†b. A hospital, a poorhouse. Obs.
1617Moryson Itin. ii. ii ii. 171 At Corke we haue prouided a guesthouse for them [the sicke and hurt men]. 1641Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. Wks. 1873 III. 413 He keeps a Guest-house for all Beggars, far and neer.
fig.1600Hosp. Incur. Fooles 24 In obscuritie and holes, in this darksome Guest-house of their madnes.
3. A house for the reception of paying guests.
1925Daily Tel. 13 May 19/4 For Sale, Guest House, South London. 1953E. Taylor Sleeping Beauty i. 11 That house on the cliff is a guest-house, is it? |