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a roof rented by the night, where strangers sleep in beds shaped by other strangers
means A place to stay, usually rented temporarily, where you sleep when you're away from home.
from From the Old French 'logier,' meaning to lodge or shelter, which traces back to 'loge' — a hut, arbor, or covered shelter. That 'loge' has Germanic roots, a cousin of the same family that gives us 'lobby' and 'loggia.' The original sense was leafy and rough: a temporary shelter made of branches, the kind a traveler or soldier might throw together for a night. Over centuries the branches hardened into walls, and 'lodging' came to mean any borrowed roof over a borrowed bed.
- word root
- from Old French loge, a hut or arbor
- medieval law
- innkeepers were once legally bound to admit travelers
- hidden risk
- hotel beds carry more germs than airplanes
- crop meaning
- farmers call flattened, fallen grain lodging too
- oldest hotel
- Japan's Nisiyama Onsen has run since 705 AD
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