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As Morocco’s first Black female hotelier, Loum-Martin transformed her ten-acre estate into a sanctuary for creativity, cultural exchange, and intellectual discourse.—Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 Handler has dated 50 Cent, hotelier Andre Balazs and comedian Jo Koy, but has never married.—Abby Tegnelia, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025 Husband-and-wife hotelier duo Joe Lipton and Michelle Friar have lived in York, Maine, for over four decades and are passionate about preserving historic properties around town.—Marquita K. Harris, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025 The hotelier’s design team, led by Olga Polizzi and Paolo Moschino, embarked on a meticulous two-year renovation project to restore the hotel, a listed landmark, to its former glory.—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hotelier
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French hôtelier, going back to Old French ostelier, hostelier "innkeeper," from ostel, hostel "lodgings, hotel entry 1" + -ier-er entry 2
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Cf. hosteler, hostler, ultimately borrowed from Anglo-Norman counterparts to the continental Old French word.
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