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hosteler Now arch. or Hist., exc. in sense 4 b.|ˈhɒstələ(r)|
Forms: α. 3–5 (9) hostiler, 4– hosteler, (4 hostyller, 4–5 hostilere, -ellere, 5–6 -iller, -elere, 5–6 (9) -illar, 6 (9) -elar, 7 (9) -eller; also 5–8 hostler. β. 4–5 ostiler, 4–6 osteler, 5–6 -ere, 5–7 ostler, 6 ostleir, 7 Sc. oistlar.
[a. OF. ostelier (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), hostelier, mod.F. hôtelier, f. hostel: see -er. Cf. med.L. hospitā lārius, hostalārius, hostel(l)ārius. See also hostler, ostler, variants of this word.]
†1. One who receives, lodges, or entertains guests and strangers; spec., in a monastery or religious house, one whose office was to attend to guests and strangers. Obs. exc. Hist.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 361/61 Þe Abbot sende him out to one of heore celles; hostiler he was þare i-mad gistes to onder-fongue. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lxi. (1869) 37, I am norishe of orphanynes, osteleer of pilgrimes. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 149 b/2 Thabbot..sente hym..to be hosteler for to receyue there ghestes. 1877J. Raine in Smith & Wace Dict. Chr. Biog. I. 725 In this establishment Cuthbert was the hostillar. 1897J. W. Clark Priory Barnwell p. lii, It was the duty of the Hosteller..to entertain the guests who sought the hospitality of the monastery.
2. A keeper of a hostelry or inn; an innkeeper. arch.
1365Munim. Gildh. Lond. (Rolls) III. 422 Ricardus le Yonge, hostyller. 1388Wyclif Luke x. 35 He brouȝte forth twey pans, and ȝaf to the ostiler. c1440York Myst. xlvii. heading, The Osteleres. Alias Inholders. 1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. xlii. (1638) 138 If a man desire to lodge with one that is no common Hosteler. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 5 a, An Hostler that had built a goodly Inne. a1635Corbet Iter Bor. 174 The inne-keeper was old, fourescore allmost..God and Time decree To honour thrifty ostlers, such as hee. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 12 [They] crossed the water, and breakfasted in William Stewart's, ostler. 1862J. Grant Capt. of Guard xxv, Gray had been repeatedly warned by the friendly hosteller..to beware of travelling in the dusk.
3. A stableman: see hostler, ostler.
4.
†a. A student who lives in a hostel (sense 3). Obs.
1577Harrison England ii. iii. (1877) i. 87 The students also that remaine in them, are called hostelers or halliers. Hereof it came of late to passe, that..Thomas late arch⁓bishop of Canturburie, being brought vp at such an house at Cambridge, was of the ignorant sort of Londoners called an ‘hosteler’, supposing that he had serued..in the stable. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 29 We infer them to be no Collegiates, but Hostelers, not in that sense which the spitefull Papists charged Dr. Cranmer to be one (an attendant on a stable), but such as lived in a learned Inn or Hostle not endowed with revenues.
b. A youth hosteller: see hostel n.1 2 b.
5. attrib., as hosteler-house [= OF. maison hosteliere; cf. med.L. hospitālāria (sc. domus) hostelry]; hosteler-wife, the mistress of an inn.
c1470Henry Wallace iii. 71 A trew Scot, quhilk hosteler house thair held. 1820Scott Abbot xviii, The hostler-wives,..are like to be the only losers by their miscarriage.
Hence ˈhosteleress, a female student in a hostel.
1850Fraser's Mag. XLII. 251 The female college, with its professoresses and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters. |