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1. A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.

   The wine house and the guest house were hung with curtains shining bright against the wooden walls.

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 32

2. A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.

   Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect steep price hikes (except at the backpackers) and book ahead.

   2004, Mary Fitzpatrick et al., South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 199

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   For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.

   2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in The New York Times

   And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.

   2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times