innkeepern.

c1449 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 230 (MED) Couerlightmakers..Inkepers..Calaundrers.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 18 Solitariousenes..[and] Night.., whyche two thynges be very Inkepers & receyuers of all noughtynesse and noughtye thinges.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke x. Q iij [He] deliuered thim to his hoste the ynnekeper that he should see the wounded man well attended and kepte.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 46 The red-nose Inkeeper of Dauintry. View more context for this quotation

1649 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1938) VIII. 216 That ilk taverner and inneis keiper put forth leight and lanternes befoir their doores.

1684 tr. Proclam. City of Amsterdam for apprehending Divers Ruffians (single sheet) All Inn-keepers, Hosts, and all others that take Lodgers coming from abroad, shall..give notice of their Lodgers to the Captains.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. x. 285 This very innkeeper..held a corner of the blanket, and canted me into the air with great strength and nimbleness.

1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xlii. 372 In Spain..the inn-keepers are almost the only well-fed, portly figures to be met with.

1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. vi. 133 A common innkeeper (which includes the keeper of every tavern or coffeehouse in which lodging is provided.)

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career III. ii. 34 The highwayman innkeeper and the market farmer who had been thoughtful enough to recharge his pistols after quitting the inn at midnight.

1926 J. Sampson Vocab. 236/2 in Dial. Gypsies Wales If an innkeeper sees a man as drunk as that, he is bound to eject him.

1986 Amer. Hist. Rev. 91 665/2 Zephenia Williams was a mine agent and innkeeper.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 May c33/4 I took my first bite of the innkeeper Karen Gay's silver dollar pancakes and had to..tell her how delicious they were.

1825 M. S. Novello Day in Stowe Gardens 121 One pious lady abbess..having some suspicions..similar to those entertained by the Boulognese innkeeperess, threatened to have him confined in a lunatic asylum.

1895 Mrs. Donne Down Danube 46 An old peasant Inn-keeperess told us.

2003 A. J. Close in H. Turner & A. López de Martínez Cambr. Compan. Spanish Novel ii. 21 The innkeeperess, an aged hag with fetid breath, sits the boy at a table set with filthy..accessories.