hotelkeeper

plural hotelkeepers

1. A hotelier; a hotel owner.

   Enquiry revealed that the train had been worked through to Dingwall for hotelkeepers and press reporters who were travelling to a conference at Strathpeffer.

   1960 May 28, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Scottish Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 369

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   The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail.

   1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free

   Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, "Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little."

   1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty