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the original five-star review system, where a bad night meant a duel at dawn
means A small establishment, especially along a road, that offers travelers lodging, food, and drink for the night.
from From Old English 'inn,' meaning a dwelling or lodging place — closely tied to the word 'in,' the simple notion of a place you go *inside* to shelter. The same root sense of 'within' threads through both words: an inn was, quite literally, somewhere to be in. The sense of a commercial house for travelers grew over the medieval centuries, and the word still lingers in the names of England's old legal societies, the Inns of Court, where it once meant a residence for students of law.
- word origin
- From Old English 'inn,' meaning simply a dwelling within
- shared beds
- Strangers once slept together in one bed routinely
- legal duty
- English innkeepers were legally bound to admit travelers
- horse first
- Coaching inns served horses before guests
- the suffix
- Holiday Inn made 'inn' mean roadside motel forever
the eagle and child — oxford pub where tolkien and c.s. lewis met weekly with the inklings from 1937-1949
the george — 16th-century coaching inn in southwark, london, featured in dickens' little dorrit
drovers inn — scottish highland inn in moffat dating to 1705, famous for its collection of stuffed animals