Inn vs Dosshouse - What's the difference?
inn | dosshouse |
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
* Washington Irving
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn , after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
A tavern.
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
(UK, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
(obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To house; to lodge.
(obsolete) To take lodging; to lodge.
A cheap inn; a flophouse.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter II
, passage=“What gives you the idea that you won't enjoy yourself? Brinkley Court's an earthly Paradise.” “In many respects, yes, but life there at the moment has its drawbacks. There's far too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste. Who do you think is staying at the old dosshouse ? Aubrey Upjohn.”}}
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 15, author=Michael Chabon, title=‘Gentlemen of the Road’, work=New York Times
, passage=It was the profoundest hour of the night, their third as inmates of Princess Celestial Hind’s dosshouse , a converted wool factory fronting on an alley off Sturgeon Street, not far from the Caspian wharfs. }}
English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs
As an initialism inn
is international nonproprietary name - the official non-proprietary or generic name given to a pharmaceutical substance, as designated by the world health organization (who).As a noun dosshouse is
a cheap inn; a flophouse.inn
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Noun
(wikipedia inn) (en noun)- the miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn
- the Inns''' of Court; the '''Inns''' of Chancery; Serjeants' '''Inns
- Leicester Inn
- (Chaucer)
- Therefore with me ye may take up your inn / For this same night.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* bed and breakfast * guesthouse * hostel * hotel * motelVerb
(en verb)- (Chaucer)
- (Addison)
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* English terms with homophones ----dosshouse
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