hotelkeeper

English

Etymology

hotel +‎ keeper

Noun

hotelkeeper (plural hotelkeepers)

  1. A hotelier; a hotel owner.
    • 1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free‎:
      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.
    • 1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty‎:
      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."
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