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osteler1 (s.xii3/3)

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The form hostilier is a cross reference to the following entry:

osteler1 (s.xii3/3)

hosteleir,  hosteler,  hostelier,  hosteller,  hostellier;  hostiler,  hostilier,  hostiller,  hostillier,  hostillur;  osteller,  ostiler  
  FEW:  hospitalis 4,495a Gdf: GdfC:  hostelier 9,769c TL: ostelier 6,1374 DEAF:  ostal (osteleor)  / ostal (ostelier)  DMF:  hôtelier  TLF:  hôtelier  OED:  hosteler n.  / hostler n.  / ostler n.  MED:  hostiler n.  DMLBS:  hostelarius 1179c

The word is, to some extent, synonymous with oste1 and (the much less common) ostelein and oster2.

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occupationhosteler, landlord of an inn or lodging house
( MS: s.xiv1 )  chescun hosteler est tenuz de garde[r] et salver lez biens [...] de ceux qe meignont les bienz deinz lours hostells  Nov Narr 332
( 1357 )  qe les hostilers [...] ne refusent lour houstes, einz les receivent [...] en bone manere et aimable  Stats i 354
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  si verretz y L'ostel d'enfern puant et noir, U qu'il te covient remanoir, Qe l'osteller est sanz mercy  GOWER Mirour 23520
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  Puis prent l'ostiler la clief de huis de la chambre et overt le huis  Man lang ANTS 10.19
( MS: 1419 )  Item, qe nul hosteler vende cervoise fors a ses hostes [...]  Lib Alb 701
merch.host, landlord of an alien merchant, who acts as an advisor and supervisor in return for a commission
( MS: 1419 )  Item, qe nul abrocour soit hostiller de marchant qi marchande de le marchandie dount il est abrocour  Lib Alb 722
eccl.monasticoccupationostler, guest-master in a religious house
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  A l'abbeie [...] L'ostelers [...] En la chambre les ad menez  S Gile1 2409

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See also:

ostage2  oste1  ostel  ostelage  ostelein  osteler2  ostelere  ostelerie  ostelet1  ostelment  oster2  osterie  ostesse 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
hostilier