Definition of "hotelkeeper" [hotelkeeper]

• See hotelier. (noun)

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• "She was, in the words of Notable American Women, “the best-known hotelkeeper in America.”"
• "When an American traveler asked the legation to intercede in her dispute with a hotelkeeper, Hay advised her to drop the matter."
• ""Let's see what happens with the rand and foremost with the problem of criminality", remarked a hotelkeeper there, touching on the sensitive point that the big cities like Johannesburg, Cape"