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bon·i·face  audio  (bn-fs, -fs) KEY 

NOUN:
The keeper of an inn, hotel, nightclub, or eating establishment.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Boniface, an innkeeper in The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar (1678-1707)


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