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Bed and breakfast   /bɛd ənd brˈɛkfəst/   Listen
Bed and breakfast

noun
1.
An overnight boardinghouse with breakfast.  Synonym: bed-and-breakfast.






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"Bed and breakfast" Quotes from Famous Books



... various modes of management. He told us, with a flush of pride on his sun-tanned cheek, that he travelled as an ordinary tourist. There was no hint of his condition or the object of his journey, no appeal to confraternity with a view to getting bed and breakfast at trade prices, or some reduction on the table d'hote charges. He travelled as a sort of Haroun al Raschid among innkeepers, haughtily paying his bills, and possibly feeing the waiters. He is a very good sort of a fellow, attentive and obliging, and it is odd how ...
— Faces and Places • Henry William Lucy

... cried, "as you have invited yourself to bed and breakfast, here is your mess, and you'd ...
— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn

... to several most amiable families in that town. I took up my abode at Parkinson's—a restaurant in Chestnut-street—where I found the people very civil and the house very clean; but I saw little of the inside of the house, except at bed and breakfast time. The hospitality for which this city is proverbial soon made me as much at home as if I had been a resident there all my life. Dinner-party upon dinner-party succeeded each other like waves of the ocean; the tables ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

... they began to look out songs with choruses, and so continued singing to the praise of wine and beauty out of my book, until they were warned home by the host. I climbed a ladder to my bedroom, and slept well. The Grenadier was not an expensive hotel, for in the morning when I paid my bill for bed and breakfast, I found that the accommodation cost ...
— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie



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