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Boniface

bo·ni·face

US/ˈbɑn.ə.fɪs/ uncommon

noun

2.

the owner or manager of an inn

Origin

After Boniface, the innkeeper in George Farquhar's 1707 comedic play The Beaux' Stratagem.

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