osterian.

1580 A. Munday Zelauto 16 Being come to this Osteria, I entered, and the first person that I sawe, was the Mistresse of the house.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. vi. sig. F^v Ha' not I Knowne him a common rogue, come fidling in To th' Ostería, with a tumbling whore. View more context for this quotation

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeee4/1 Thy Master that lodges here in my Hosteria.

1695 Earl of Perth Let. 19 May (1845) 77 We climbed down the hill on the other side, and by little foot-wads reacht our hosteria.

1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy 313 He would take me to an excellent osteria where I should be entertained and lodged like a Prince.

1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 52 Tried to get admittance into a little Osteria or Inn but were refused.

1814 J. Milner Let. in F. C. Husenbeth Life J. Milner (1862) xv. 283 Arriving here..at what is called an osteria, or inn, we found the whole cave, of which it consisted, quite full of pigs.

1887 T. G. Jackson Dalmatia II. 187 Our lodging..was a palace compared to the osteria where we dined, or rather fed.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse III. vii. lii. 794 The osteria, or ‘hotel’ as it was now called, at Duomo d'Ossola.

1956 C. G. Bode Wines of Italy iii. 31 With your diet in all the osterias, trattorias and ristorantes probably based on fish, you will become acquainted with them [sc. wines] soon enough under the all-embracing denominator Vino Bianco or Vino Comune da Tavola.

1995 Ital. Food & Wine Spring 7/1 In a day when so many touristic diversions degenerate into a pale, Disney-ish shade of the real thing, the inexpensive, neighborhood osteria, or trattoria, is like an oasis for the guide-book wary.