hôtelière

hôtelière noun: a woman who owns or runs a hotel.

Noun

hôtelière (plural hôtelières)

(rare) A woman who owns or runs a hotel.
- 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...
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...

plural	hôtelières

From French hôtelière.

What does hôtelière mean?: Hôtelière means a woman who owns or runs a hotel.
How do you use hôtelière in a sentence?: The aunt’s relationship with a younger black lover echoes the situation of the ageing hôtelière and Marcel in The Comedians; […]
What part of speech is hôtelière?: Hôtelière is a noun.
What is the plural of hôtelière?: The plural of hôtelière is hôtelières.

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