motel

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).

In a way, though, the downtrodden decor actually made it more romantic, like we'd sneaked off to a garish hot-sheet motel for a twilight rendezvous. — Life Blood, Thomas Hoover
Remember when he used to go out to this motel out on the outskirts there; there was this doll he was interested in but it never came to much. — Occasion ... for Disaster, Randall Garrett
[A16-404] Early in 1963 Ruby also traveled to Wichita, Kans., because of his interest in stripper Gail Raven,[A16-405] and on May 25, 1963, he apparently registered in an Oklahoma motel. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

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