Obs. In phr. a lostell = OF. à l’ostel (see HOSTEL), ‘to your quarters!,’ ‘disperse!’
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 197 b. The kyng … caused the Heraldes to cry, a lostell, and every man to departe.
1847. Halliwell, Lostell, the cry of the heralds to the combatants that they should return home.
