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Boniface

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Bon·i·face  (bn-fs), Saint. Originally Winfrid or Wynfrith. 675?-754.
English Roman Catholic missionary active in Germany.
bon·i·face  (bn-fs, -fs)
n.
The keeper of an inn, hotel, nightclub, or eating establishment.
[After Boniface, an innkeeper in The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar (1678-1707).]
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Noun1.BonifaceBoniface - (Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754)
Apostle of Germany, Saint Boniface, St. Boniface, Winfred, Wynfrith
Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
2.Bonifaceboniface - the owner or manager of an inn      
innkeeper, host
hostess - a woman innkeeper
padrone - an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy
patron - the proprietor of an inn
victualer, victualler - an innkeeper (especially British)


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