innholder Now rare.
(ˈɪnˌhəʊldə(r))
Forms: see inn n.
[f. inn n. 4 + holder. Cf. householder.]
= innkeeper.
| 1464 Nottingham Rec. II. 252 Johannes Watson, inhalder. c 1510 Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) G iv, Be thou none Inholder, hosteler nor Taverner. 1587 Harrison England ii. iii. (1877) i. 87 Supposing he had serued with some inholder in the stable. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 74 They say that this Lady was at first an Inholder or Hostesse. a 1748 Pitt Imit. Horace, Sat. ii. vi. (R.), So rov'd wild Buckingham the public jest, Now some innholder's, now a monarch's guest. 1841 Emerson Misc. (1855) 258 The very innholders and landlords of the country would muster with fury to their support. 1875 R. J. Hinton Eng. Radical Leaders 215 The ‘Licensed Victualler's Association’, as the Guild or Trades society of inn-holders and keepers of public houses is termed, is a wealthy and powerful body. |