pousada
/pəʊˈsɑːdə
/noun
A hotel in Portugal owned and administered by the government.Restaurants, chic boutiques, pousadas (B&B guesthouses) and a few dive shops now line the neat alleys cordoned off to traffic....
- The day before beginning a tour of the Minho region in northern Portugal, I was logged onto the Internet looking for hospitals near the remote pousada on the Spanish border where my seven-year-old son and I would be spending our third night.
- It is also used to beautiful effect in the town's palace, now a pousada.
Origin
Portuguese, literally 'resting place'.
Rhymes
- monkism
- monklike
- monkliness
- monk parakeet
- monk pepper tree
- monk's bench
- monk's bond
- monk's chair
- monk's cloth
- monk seal
- monk's gun
- monk shoe
- monkshood
- monk's pepper tree
- monk's rhubarb
- monks' rhubarb
- monk's shoe
- monk's table
- monk strap
- Monk, Thelonious
- Monmouth cap
- Monmouth cock
- Monmouth, Duke of
- Monmouthshire
- monnion