capsule hotel
English
Inside a capsule hotel.
Etymology
Calque of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru).
Noun
capsule hotel (plural capsule hotels)
- A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
- 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- "In there?" Yamazaki indicates what he takes to be another door, like the entrance to a hutch, curtained with a soiled square of melon-yellow, foam-cored blanket, the sort of blanket one finds in a capsule hotel.
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Synonyms
- pod hotel
Translations
hotel with capsules
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