guest-room

plural guest-rooms

1. alternativeAlternative form of guest room.

   Marian’s room was done up in blue, as she had requested, and the other guest-room was furnished in yellow.

   1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 59

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   “About three hundred.” / “All staying in the house!” exclaimed Marguerite. “Oh! many guest-rooms have you?” / “Seventy-five. But then there is the armory; about a hundred manage to sleep there; they did at my marriage.”

   1887, Kathleen O’Meara, chapter IV, in Narka, the Nihilist, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 37

   Most hotels have a stated check-out time at which departing guests must vacate their rooms. In general, check-out time is between 10.00a.m. and noon. The information regarding this should be written on the key card, as well as stated in the information folder in the hotel guest-room.

   2000, Sue Baker, Pam Bradley, Jeremy Huyton, Principles of Hotel Front Office Operations, 2nd edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 188