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innkeeper|ˈɪnˌkiːpə(r)|
Forms: see inn n.
[f. inn n. 4 + keeper n.]
One who keeps an inn or public house for the accommodation of travellers and others; an innholder, a taverner.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke x. Q iij, [He] deliuered thim to his hoste the ynnekeper that he should see the wounded man well attended and kepte. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 51 The Red-Nose Inne-keeper of Dauintry. 1779Swinburne Trav. Spain xlii. 372 In Spain..the inn-keepers are almost the only well-fed, portly figures to be met with. 1845Stephen Comm. Laws Eng. (1874) II. 84 A common innkeeper—which includes the keeper of every tavern or coffeehouse in which lodging is provided.
fig.1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 52 Solitariousenes, whyche lurketh in holes and corners, [and] Night an vngratiouse couer of noughtynesse, whyche two thynges be very Inkepers and receyuers of all noughtynesse and noughtye thinges.
Hence ˈinnˌkeeperess, rare, a female innkeeper. So also ˈinnˌkeeping n., the keeping of an inn (also attrib.); adj. that keeps an inn.
1860G. H. K. in Vac. Tour. 121 Anybody who wishes to speculate in the innkeeping line. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 126 The general progress of society rendered inn⁓keeping increasingly prosperous. 1895Mrs. Donne Down Danube 46 An old peasant Inn-keeperess told us. |