1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio vi. 38 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) Ceremonies of their march from the Hôtel, or great House of Pera.

1701 View of Paris 10 It must be confess'd that the Hotels, or Noble-men's Houses are truly Noble and Stately, having great Portes Cocheres, and Courts before them.

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1425 I hope I have domesticated you at his hôtel there.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 48 I bid La Fleur..enquire for the Count's hotel.

1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. vi She inhabited, when in Edinburgh..one of those old hotels.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 356 A few great men still retained their hereditary hotels between the Strand and the river.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse III. vii. lii. 790 It was formerly the hôtel of an ancient and respectable, a noble family.

1997 F. Bray Technol. & Gender 39 The aristocratic hôtel made sense only in relation to Versailles on the one hand, and to the bourgeois dwelling on the other.

1687 A. Behn Amours Philander & Silvia 350 Silvia, not used much to riding, as a Man, was pretty well tired by that time she got to one of those Hotels; and as soon as she alighted she went to her Chamber, to refresh and cool herself.

1765 T. Smollett Trav. (1766) II. xxxix. 235 The expence of living at an hotel is enormous.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. at Hostel An inn, an hotel.

1776 R. King Life & Corr. (1894) I. 20 By a Gentlemen who lately came out of Boston I was informed that they have two bake houses constantly employed in baking for their hotels.

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xiv. 12 Groping your way to the inn—(I beg pardon—hotel).

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 118 I..returned slowly..to my hotel.

1877 Echo 31 July 1/4 At every hotel we asked for the local journals.

1915 T. Bosanquet Let. 14 Dec. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) App. B. 377 She got to London very late..so she very sensibly went straight to her hotel.

1954 J. Thompson Hell of Woman (1990) xvi 137 He'd been boasting around about how he was going to make one of the maids at his hotel.

2004 Living Spirit Dec. 2 Within the hour I was in a beautiful hotel with a roaring log fire and food to boot.

1748 T. Salmon Foreigner's Compan. Cambr. & Oxf. i. 18 Hugh de Balsam..purchased two Halls or Hotels near St. Peter's Church.

1951 Sunday Times Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 23 Dec. ii. 4/4 For purposes of comparison, the standard phonetic alphabet and the new one adopted by ICAO are reproduced below: H... Old..How... New..Hotel.

1978 Radiotelephony Procedures & Phraseol. ii. 5 (table) The following words are to be used when it is required to transmit individual letters, e.g. callsigns... H. Hotel..I. India [etc.].

1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate ii. xxxviii. 303 ‘Meet you on three-eleven mike hotel.’ Switching to the peacekeeping force's military frequency was against regulations.

2003 National Post (Canada) 14 Feb. a6/6 Tim Hortons is...where many police officers go...often signalling their intentions on the police radio with the coded moniker Tango Hotel.

1968 Times of India 24 Sept. 6/2 (advt.) Cooks [for a factory]. Applicants should have at least 7 years' working experience in an Industrial Canteen or Hotel and should be capable of cooking both Western and Indian style dishes.

1984 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. x. 6/4 Behind the great mosque..a few genuine, unevolved..tandooris can be found. At one of these, the Khake da Hotel, a hideous din of slapping comes from the kitchen.

2016 Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 10 Apr. Anusha Gayan runs Hotel Anuhas. A small but very popular eatery, it has been in existence for the past four years and has been doing pretty well.

1820 R. C. Dallas Sir Francis Darrell II. xxv. 82 Paying the German Baron's hotel bills for the protection of his name in the journeyings of his wife.

1903 J. Joyce Let. 26 Feb. (1966) II. 31 I was favoured with my hotel-bill on Tuesday.

2003 Independent 30 Aug. (Mag.) 25/4 Married and with a new job as a travel agent, she tries to escape her fate via a string of overseas sexcapades with men who are either terrible at sex, or tight with the hotel bill.

1850 H. Melville White-jacket xii. 60 Who so chatty as hotel-clerks, market-women, auctioneers, bar-keepers, apothecaries, newspaper-reporters, monthly-nurses, and all those who live in bustling crowds, or are present at scenes of chatty interest.

1945 L. R. Tryon Poor Man's Doctor 185 I suppose the actor is better trained than most of us at inventing stratagems for getting past the hard and watchful eyes of hotel clerks.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Dec. viii. 1/1 Bryant never learned the N.B.A. code: choose pole dancers over hotel clerks.

1905 F. Miltoun Rambles in Normandy iv. 255 The hotel garage was all astir.

2007 Publishers Weekly Rev. (Nexis) 23 July 40 He discovers Godfrey's body in the hotel garage the morning after the staff holiday party.

1766 Memorial Archibald Douglas of Douglas 237 The non-existence, therefore, of a Madame La Brun, as an hotel-keeper in the records of police, is of no sort of consequence.

1829 Virginia Lit. Museum 336/1 The Proctor is required to make a monthly report..of any matters relating to the students or hotel-keepers which may be worthy of being noticed.

1996 Sunday Tel. 4 Feb. 18/2 It's Celtic whimsy ahoy, when the doctor pitches up at the lochside to find romance with a flaxen-haired hotel keeper.

1809 C. Edwards Let. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. (1824) Feb. 162/1 So little, indeed, is the business of hotel-keeping understood or appreciated by the Portuguese.

1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 247 Having then left what, in my opinion, is the perfection of hotel-keeping.

2007 Caterer & Hotelkeeper (Nexis) 8 Mar. He always had time to stop and be pleasant, which is, after all, what hotelkeeping is all about.

1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 13 May 301/1 Vases of water are likewise exposed for public use in many of the hotel-lobbies.

1912 M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. 182 A number of idlers in the hotel lobby regarded him with a new interest.

2000 Minx Aug. 74/2 Usually I can handle it when he acts like a child but on one occasion in Spain I just lost it and we started brawling in the hotel lobby.

1854 Mechanics' Mag. 19 Aug. 189/2 John Thomas Moss, of Arundel-street, Strand, Middlesex, hotel manager.

1910 W. J. Locke Simon the Jester xv. 199 The correctly attired hotel manager in the attitude in which he habitually surveyed the lay-out of the table d'hôte.

2000 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 4 June (Mag. section) 11/2 (advt.) Whether your goal is to become a hotel manager or waitron, stock controller or receptionist, INTEC offers you the course that will help you achieve your ambition.

1828 Times 2 June 5/2 William Slade, the hotel-porter, said that he accompanied them to a house in Arundel-street.

1881 C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) II. 343 The officious Hotel porter had told a lot of other people.

2004 Snowboard UK Jan. 65 The hotel porter proved to be right.

1833 C. G. F. Gore Sketch Bk. Fashion III. xiii. 317 The first incident that produced any sensation in his mind, in the course of his solitary journey, was the sight of an hotel register presented to him.

1899 E. Wharton Greater Inclination iv. 99 She must take her place in the hotel register as Mrs. Garnett.

2007 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 29 Apr. 8 Flick through the hotel register and you'll see the signatures of showbusiness royalty.

1818 E. C. Everard Mem. Unfortunate Son Thespis 272 I then, some time after, had the favour of Mr Oman's hotel room.

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iv. 236 You know how it is, traveling around. The damned hotel rooms.

2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Jan. 70 When international guests checked into their hotel rooms, they would be greeted by large boxes of Brazilian delicacies.

1833 J. Stuart Three Years N. Amer. II. iv. 125 Boiled rice and hominie are common at the hotel tables in this country.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 89 The celerity at hotel-tables is remarkable.

1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 Feb. a14 Escorted to a hotel table during a power failure, a recent visitor could only guess at the presence of fellow diners..in the inky blackness.

1872 Dubuque (Iowa) Herald 26 Nov. The first manifestations of the genuine horse disease made their appearance among the horses belonging to the Brown's hotel 'bus.

1923 E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods iv. iii. 221 He was marshalling them all toward a hotel bus.

2007 Trav. Trade Gaz. UK & Ireland (Nexis) 17 Aug. 56 After watching some traditional Kikuyu dancing, we board the hotel bus which will transport us to the world-famous Treetops Hotel for our overnight stay.

1856 Sci. Amer. 16 Aug. 388/4 A railroad hotel car. A car lately put on the Illinois Central Railroad contains six state rooms, each room having two seats with cushioned backs, large enough for a person to lie upon.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1135/2 Hotel-car, one arranged for affording meals to passengers on board while on a journey.

1995 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 25 Feb. e1 In 1867 George Pullman introduced his hotel cars to America, fulfilling his dream to provide a luxurious traveling experience for railroad passengers.

1865 N.Y. Times 12 July 8/3 Special Hotel Detectives. A special force of detective police is about to be organized in this city for the express purpose of watching hotel [sic], steamboats and tenement-houses, with a view to more effectually guard against the frequent robberies which occur in these places.

1922 Times 4 Mar. 7/6 As a matter of precaution, the hotel detective examined their luggage when they went out.

2006 R. Knightly in L. Block Manhattan Noir 133 And if Jane hadn't been tight with the hotel detective, it might've worked, too.

1851 Daily Free Democrat (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 14 Apr. The noise of a hotel omnibus whirling through the streets.

1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1049 The Hotel omnibus meets the principal London trains.

2000 Press Assoc. Newswire (Nexis) 27 Mar. The sale also includes an original 1939 Bugatti, a 1921 Sunbeam and a 1903 Panhard Hotel Omnibus.

1921 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 1 July 1/7 The crime was committed by someone inside the hotel,..and not by a hotel prowler bent on theft.

2004 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 42 (heading) Camera catches hotel prowler.

1848 ‘N. Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries N.Y. ii. ix. 57 Many of our readers may have noticed the almost professional look..of an outside hotel-runner.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 24 Jan. in French & Italian Notebks. (1980) 47 A crowd of cab-drivers, hotel-runners, and commissionaires.

1995 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Mar. e1 Check with the room-finding services usually found in city train stations or tourist information offices; and don't be overly shy of hotel runners, the folks who meet trains to promote their lodgings.

1858 G. A. Sala Journey due North xiii. 301 If I had a few of Heyde's cards with me, I would distribute them as shamelessly as any hotel tout on Calais Pier.

1922 S. Leslie Oppidan i. 7 He had picked them up at the station like a hotel-tout.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. xiii. 672 Women are strongly advised to ignore any hotel touts they meet at the station.

1899 N.E.D. Hotelhood, the state of an hotel.

1927 Cornhill Mag. May 601 The Convent..has ceased to be the strictly religious establishment of its earlier days and is not yet arrived at the fullness of hotelhood.

1844 N. Cheever Let. 16 Jan. in H. T. Cheever Memorials Life Youthful Christian (1851) xiv. 312 A mode of living which, as circumstances are, is the most comfortable we could adopt in this hotel-less city.

1891 Sat. Rev. 29 Aug. 244/2 Most of the smaller towns were hotelless.

1991 Amer. Libraries (Nexis) June 491 Taxis don't cruise this or most other hotelless areas.

1852 S. S. Cox Buckeye Abroad xxvii. 332 We were not long in being hotelled, nor in seeking the curious.

1883 R. F. Burton & V. F. Cameron To Gold Coast I. ii. 49 I was hotelled at the ‘Royal Edinburgh’.

1927 A. Huxley Let 17 Nov. (1969) 292 You're going to be in full strength, either housed or hotelled, somewhere in Switzerland.

2003 Guardian 18 Aug. (Media section) 7/4 Having been flown around the world and hotelled, I found that the prime minister had called a press conference in the next ballroom.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat ii We decided that we would..hotel it, and inn it, and pub. it..when it was wet.

1894 Howells in Cosmopolitan May 52/2 We tried hotelling it.

1925 Amer. Mercury May 62/2 A man who has hoteled in the small towns of every State in our glorious Union except Arizona.

1945 K. Tynan Let. 20 June (1994) i. 82 Hugh and I are hoping to come to London in..early August, with David Bench and possibly Pauline... May I share 225? The others will hotel it.

1995 P. Bourgois In Search of Respect (1997) iii. 90 Everyday we was hoteling it. Hotels cost money, man.