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hostel

mastery

/ˈhɑstəl/nounverb

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What does 'hostel' mean in this sentence?

Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way.