Also 7 alberge. [Fr.:—alberge, earlier helberge, 11th c. herberge, a. MHG. herberge, OHG. heri-berga, lit. ‘army-shelter,’ camp, tent, inn: cf. G. herberge, and HARBOUR.] An inn, a place of accommodation for travellers.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 195. The alberges of the Knight Hospitallers of St. Johns.
1777. Shuckburgh, in Phil. Trans., LXVII. 533. We had dined in a most miserable auberge.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc., II. i. 2. At an auberge near the foot of the Rhone glacier.
Hence ǁ Aubergiste, keeper of an auberge. † Aubergical a. (nonce-wd.).
1775. H. Walpole, Lett. C’tess Ossory, I. 178. Some tender swain had written … his fair one’s name in this usual aubergical exclamation.
1766. Smollett, Trav., 25. The aubergistes impose upon us shamefully.
