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† hostry Obs. or arch.|ˈhəʊstrɪ|
Forms: α. 4–6 ostrye, 5 oostre, 5–7 ostry, -ie, 5–8 ostery, 6 ostrey. β. 4–6 hostrye, 5–6 hostre, 5–7 hostrie, 5–8 hostery, hostry, 6 -trey, 6–8 -terie, 8 arch. hoastrie.
[a. OF. hosterie, hostrie (= It. osteria, Sp. hosteria), f. hoste (mod.F. hôte) host n.2: see -ery, -ry.]
= hostelry.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 73 He..Herberwed hym at an hostrye. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxv. 119 Þus þai do fra ostrie to ostrie till þai comme at þe emperour. c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 329, I was neuer bard ere..In sich an oostre as this. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 210 b/2 This wenche went to another that laye in the same hostery. 1526Tindale Luke ii. 7 There was no roume for them with in, in the hostrey. 1598Stow Surv. xxxvi. (1603) 350 Now a common ostrey for receipt of travellers. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 88 The Princes sit at meat like Carriers in an Hostry. 1652Peyton Catastr. Ho. Stuarts (1731) 31 She..accompanied him to some Hostery. 1756Cibber Apol. II. Dial. Old Pl. 165 Five inns or common osteries. 1790Pennant London 458 (R.) In Stow's time it was altered to a common hosterie or inn, having a black bell for a sign.
b. attrib., as hostry bottle, hostry court, hostry house, hostry press, hostry roof; (h)ostry faggot, a faggot used to light hostelry fires; so hostry-wood: see quot. 1769.
1507–8Durham MS. Terr. Roll, Le hostre house ibidem. 1594Greene & Lodge Looking Glasse G.'s Wks. (Rtldg.) 133/1 Think, mistress, what a thing love is: why, it is like to an ostry-faggot, that, once set on fire, is as hardly quenched as the bird crocodile driven out of her nest. 1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. ii, It must be served in locks And ostry bottles. 1671–2Overseers' Acc. Holy Cross, Canterb., For six ostery fagotes..{pstlg}o. os. 6d. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) I. 139 Here they make those Faggots, which the Wood-mongers call Ostreywood, and in particular those small light Bavins which are used in Taverns in London to light their Faggots. a1770Chatterton Eclogue i. 26 in Rowley P. (1778) 3 The joyous daunceynge ynn the hoastrie courte. 1881T. Watts in Athenæum 10 Sept. 337/1 To have the grass for his bed and the sky for his hostry-roof. |