Also 6 fondego, 7 fundaco. [It., ad. Arab.; see FONDUK.] An inn; also, in North Africa, † a building containing a merchant’s residence and sale rooms.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. 183. At the death of one of their marchants in Alexandria called Edward Chamberlaine, the French Consul Vento sealing up his fondego and chamber, tooke under his seale al his goods and marchandise into his power, and required our commandement that all the goods might be restored againe according to justice unto the Englishmen.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IX. 385. Their Villages be farre distant, some sixe, ten, fifteene twenty miles, one from another; in all which grounds there is no sequestrate house, unlesse (being a high way) it bee a Fundaco or Inne.
1833. J. H. Newman, Lett. (1891), I. 397. The landlady of the fondaco asked me if I was going to Paris, and begged me to take a letter to her daughter, which I have done.
