pousada
/pəʊˈsɑːdə
/noun
A hotel in Portugal owned and administered by the government.Restaurants, chic boutiques, pousadas (B&B guesthouses) and a few dive shops now line the neat alleys cordoned off to traffic....
- The day before beginning a tour of the Minho region in northern Portugal, I was logged onto the Internet looking for hospitals near the remote pousada on the Spanish border where my seven-year-old son and I would be spending our third night.
- It is also used to beautiful effect in the town's palace, now a pousada.
Origin
Portuguese, literally 'resting place'.
Rhymes
- rose-coloured spoonbill
- rose-coloured starling
- rose-coloured vervain
- rose comb
- rose-combed
- rose copper
- rose cross
- rose-cut
- rose diagram
- rose diamond
- rose drop
- rose du Barry
- rose ear
- rose engine
- rose-engine lathe
- rose-eyed
- rose fever
- rosefinch
- rose-fingered
- rosefish
- rose gall
- rose gall wasp
- rose garnet
- rose geranium
- rose glass