hotelkeeper
English
Etymology
Noun
hotelkeeper (plural hotelkeepers)
- A hotelier; a hotel owner.
- 1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free[1]:
- The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail.
- 1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty[2]:
- Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, "Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little."