guest-room

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English

Noun

guest-room (plural guest-rooms)

  1. Alternative form of guest room.
    • 1887, Kathleen O’Meara, chapter IV, in Narka, the Nihilist, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , page 37:
      “About three hundred.” / “All staying in the house!” exclaimed Marguerite. “Oh! many guest-rooms have you?” / “Seventy-five. But then there is the armory; about a hundred manage to sleep there; they did at my marriage.”
    • 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 59:
      Marian’s room was done up in blue, as she had requested, and the other guest-room was furnished in yellow.
    • 2000, Sue Baker, Pam Bradley, Jeremy Huyton, Principles of Hotel Front Office Operations, 2nd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 188:
      Most hotels have a stated check-out time at which departing guests must vacate their rooms. In general, check-out time is between 10.00a.m. and noon. The information regarding this should be written on the key card, as well as stated in the information folder in the hotel guest-room.