Meanings
plural hospitages
- countableobsoleteuncountablehospitality (lodging or putting someone up)
That his ungentle hoste n'ote him appeach Of vile ungentlenesse or hospitages breach
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Latinhospitium
- Latinhospitagium
- Englishhospitage
From Latin hospitagium, for Latin hospitium. See hospice.
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