the innkeeper was a very genial, accommodating host
Recent Examples on the WebIn 1984, inspired by Fantasia Fair, a transgender gathering first held nine years earlier, a group of women innkeepers dreamed up Women’s Weekend (now Women’s Week), in an effort to attract more lesbian visitors and to expand the summer season into October.—June Thomas, TIME, 31 May 2024 Meanwhile, your innkeepers have to heave your luggage up from the boat.—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024 Back in the day, parents sent money to different cafés, innkeepers or restaurants around Heidelberg weekly so that the students wouldn’t spend their allowance all at once.—Yolanda Evans, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024 Ishmael’s short stay has lasting ramifications on the lives of the innkeeper and her female descendants.—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2024 Olivier’s face could be made to look like Picasso’s, the innkeeper Josep Fondevila’s like an African mask, and so on.—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024 Cycle Oregon began as a germ of an idea in a letter to The Oregonian from Ashland innkeeper Jim Beaver.—oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023 The Living Nativity: Christ Presbyterian Church hosts a free interactive walk-through Christmas story, featuring Mary and Joseph on the way to Bethlehem, baby Jesus in a manger, the innkeeper, shepherds and angels in the field, wise men and Emperor Augustus.—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023 In 1821, a 20-year-old innkeeper’s son named Thierry Hermès, who grew up in the German textile town of Krefeld, moved to France’s Normandy region and apprenticed as a saddler.—Lindsay Talbot, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
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