Inn vs Ginn - What's the difference?
inn | ginn |
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
* Washington Irving
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, 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.
* {{quote-book, year=, author=The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. (1810-1897), title=Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=AZA'ZEL, one of the ginn or jinn, all of whom were made of "smokeless fire," that is, the fire of the Simoom. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1886, author=Andrew Lang, title=In the Wrong Paradise, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There also were the "maids of modest glances," previously indifferent to the wooing "of man or ginn ." }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), title=The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I accordingly assumed Hassan to be a myth--a first cousin to the ginn . }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Charles Reade (1814-1884) and Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), title=Foul Play, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You ginn it us hot--you did. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Lawrence J. Burpee, title=Humour of the North, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Well, the doctor axed me to vote for his son, and I just up and told him I would, only my relation was candidating also; but ginn him my hand and promise I would be neuter. }}
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(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.
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* See alsoSee also
* bed and breakfast * guesthouse * hostel * hotel * motelVerb
(en verb)- (Chaucer)
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