[It., ad. med.L. (camera, domus) locanda, (room, house) to be let. (Est locanda is still used in Rome for ‘To Let.’)] A lodging-house or inn.
1838. J. Stephens, Trav. Greece, etc. (1839), 11/1. When we found ourselves in a neat little locanda.
1844. Mem. Babylonian P’cess, II. 263. I was carried to a locanda in Leghorn.
