ventan.
/ˈvɛnta/ A Spanish hostelry or wayside inn.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
schooleOE
hospitalc1300
khanc1400
xenodochy?c1550
posting inn1556
vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1610 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 107 Our ventas and hostelries without victuals or lodging.
1618 R. Cocks Diary (1883) II. 89 As we retorned, we went into a vento or tavarne.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 205 Those places..are as the Ventas in Spain, and serve for Inns upon the High-way.
1775 R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Spain 39 (note) A venta is a lone house, established by public authority, for the convenience of travellers.
1792 J. Townsend Journey Spain (ed. 2) III. 104 The waggoners and drovers.. being seated on the grass before the doors of a venta.
1817 M. Keating Trav. I. 69 A venta is seated at the foot of this road of ascent.
1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo iv. 42 Through the flaring lattices of the Spanish ventas come the clatter of castanets.
1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents v Beguiling the journey with cigarette and song, calling at every venta on the road.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1927 Blackwood's Mag. June 824/1 Two fig trees stood at the door of the little venta-shop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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