| 释义 |
host-house Now dial.
[Cf. Ger. gasthaus.]
A house for the reception of guests or strangers; a hostelry; an inn.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 591 To go with him to the free Ostehouses amongst the English Merchants. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 352 One night in a bad Host-house. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Host-house,..a farmer's inn at market. 1893Northumbid. Gloss. s.v. Hoast-hoos, The inns where farmers put up..have oast⁓hooses attached. They are the waiting rooms used by wife and daughters, and the reception place for parcels or goods. |