Definition of "hosteler" []

• A traveler who stays at hostels. (noun)
• Archaic An innkeeper. (noun)

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• "And anon the hosteler arrayeth for him so fair and so well and so honestly, that there shall lack nothing; and it shall be done sooner and with less cost than an a man made it in his own house."
• "They came to her in the cutting voice of Patience Bittner, a sophisticated hosteler she'd known on Isle Royale."
• "No hosteler or herbergeour might entertain a stranger longer than a day and a night, unless he undertook to answer for his guest's behaviour, and he was left in no uncertainty as to the course of conduct he was expected to pursue towards the always undesirable alien."