[ noun ] a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers <noun.artifact>
Hostelry \Hos"tel*ry\, n. [OE. hostelrie, hostelrye, ostelrie, OF. hostelerie, fr. hostel. See {Hostel}.] An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] --Chaucer. ``Homely brought up in a rude hostelry.'' --B. Jonson.
Come with me to the hostelry. --Longfellow.
It is still possible to get a moderately priced double room at Claridge's, the swank London hostelry, for a bit less than $220 a night.