hôtelière

plural hôtelières

1. rareA woman who owns or runs a hotel.

   Etienne and the hôtelière had agreed to use her men because they were all Igbo.

   2019, D[avid] J[ohn] Butler, chapter 11, in Witchy Kingdom: Secrets of the Serpent Throne (Witchy War; 3), Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN

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   Then, having chosen to stay at La Châtre, I wrote to the hôtelière asking her to arrange to rent a bicycle for me so that I could go back and forth to Nohant.

   1977–1981, Newsletter, volumes 1–4, Hempstead, N.Y.: Hofstra University, University Center for Cultural & Intercultural Studies, page 7

   Our route — and our eating and drinking — was carefully plotted for us by Christiane Giuliani, a leading hôtelière and chef of the region, and by Maryse Piergiovanni of the regional tourist office in Privas, home of the most expensive sweetmeat of all, the marron glacé.

   1987, Decanter, page 46, column 1

   The aunt’s relationship with a younger black lover echoes the situation of the ageing hôtelière and Marcel in The Comedians; […]

   1997, Cedric Watts, “[The life of a writer] The later years”, in A Preface to Greene, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, part one (The Writer and His Setting), page 75

   Whereas the narrator or auteur in Diderot’s novel appears to know at least some of the characters, and even at times to have been present during some of the episodes (as when the hôtelière tells her story), there is nothing to indicate that Graffigny’s éditrice knew any of the characters or the events recounted, until Déterville entrusted her with Zilia’s correspondence.

   2000, Theodore E[dward] D[aniel] Braun, “Audience-Awareness Theory and Eighteenth-Century French Novels”, in Diana Guiragossian Carr, editor, Diderot Studies, volume XXVIII, Librairie Droz S.A., →ISBN, page 69