单词 | inn-like |
释义 | > as lemmasinn-like inn-like adj. (and adv.) typical or reminiscent of an inn (sense 2a(a)); likely to be found or experienced in an inn; (also) in the manner of an inn. ΚΠ a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. iii. ii. 76 So, thanking him with inn-like phrase for his offers, they left him. 1751 Lady M. Vere Let. 19 Oct. in Countess of Suffolk Lett. (1824) II. 219 A prodigious large house, and furnished inn-like, two beds in each room. 1867 St. James's Mag. 358 The unavoidable inn-like characteristics of a dwelling in which several families or individuals reside, who are unconnected in any way with each other. 1937 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 4 May 2/6 Appetizers served before dinner in the castle ancient kitchen, no longer used as such but converted into an inn-like room with an American bar. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Nov. (Travel section) 3 Many people are surprised to know that hotels and innlike lodging exist in the Galapagos. < as lemmas |
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