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tourist court

noun

Definition of tourist court

: motel

Examples of tourist court in a Sentence

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Fewer still remember the traditions of autocamps and tourist courts. Andrew Wood, Smithsonian, "The Rise and Fall of the Great American Motel," 30 June 2017 By the 1930s and ‘40’s, cottage courts (also known as tourist courts) emerged as a classier alternative to dingy cabin camps. Andrew Wood, Smithsonian, "The Rise and Fall of the Great American Motel," 30 June 2017

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First Known Use of tourist court

1937, in the meaning defined above

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