Synonyms:
host, innkeeper, boniface
Meaning: the owner or manager of an inn
Usage examples
The innkeeper said to her roughly:
The innkeeper looked at him sideways and said gruffly:
On the mantelpiece was arrayed the innkeeper's collection of figured earthenware pots and stone jugs.
This worthy couple were fleecing us just as a Swiss innkeeper might have done, and estimated their imperfect hospitality at the highest price.
Both knew each other: the boy was that one among the children who could not come because he had to go home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son.
The meaning of this doggrel, which is somewhat broad, may be rendered--"He dines well who escapes without paying a penny, and who bids farewell to the innkeeper by wiping his nose on the tablecloth."