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The word comes from Flemish and means small shelter, nest, cabin (as in friet kot, a chip shed, or kot à poule, a chicken coop).It can also even refer to slums. This term specifically used in Belgium refers to a cupboard (un kot à balais, a broom cupboard) and by extension any small room such as a student room.
The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word barraca 'soldier's tent', [1] but today barracks are usually permanent buildings. The word may apply to separate housing blocks or to complete complexes, and the plural form often refers to a single structure and may be singular in construction .
Literature. Naguib Mahfouz's 1967 novel, Miramar, focuses on the lives of the long-term residents of the eponymous pension in Alexandria in the 1960s.; E. M. Forster's 1908 novel, A Room with a View, opens with the protagonist Lucy Honeychurch and her spinster cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett complaining about the Pensione Bertolini, where they are staying in Florence, Italy.
Accommodation (eye), the process by which the eye increases optical power to maintain a clear image (focus) on an object as it draws near Accommodation in psychology, the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences according to Jean Piaget, in the learning broader theory of Constructivism
According to the Cambridge Business English Dictionary the "hospitality industry" consists of hotels and food service, [7] equivalent to NAICS code 72, "Accommodation and Food Service". However, the United States Department of Labor Standard Industry Classification (SIC) defines the hospitality industry more broadly, as noted above.
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A typical hotel room with a bed, desk, and television. The word hotel is derived from the French hôtel (coming from the same origin as hospital), which referred to a French version of a building seeing frequent visitors, and providing care, rather than a place offering accommodation.
Breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City, Canada The ship Bürgermeister O´Swald II is now a B&B in the port of Cuxhaven.. A bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast.