capsule hotel

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Inside a capsule hotel.

Etymology

Calque of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru).

Noun

capsule hotel (plural capsule hotels)

  1. A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
    • 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 3:
      "In there?" Yamazaki indicates what he takes to be another door, like the entrance to a hutch, curtained with a soiled square of melon-yellow, foam-cored blanket, the sort of blanket one finds in a capsule hotel.

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