If you Google “arms” “hotel” you get a long list of hotels named “The ___ Arms Hotel.”
Sherlock Holmes visited a place called Boscombe Valley, where he stayed at the Boscombe Arms Hotel.
Sesame Street has a hotel now, called the Furry Arms.
What’s with the “Arms”?
Giles
July 27, 2006, 4:29pm
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Wouldn’t it be a coat of arms, used in the hotel’s sign?
garius
July 27, 2006, 4:36pm
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Yep - it’s a reference to the coat of arms of the person/family/town/guild etc. that the hotel is named for.
friedo
July 27, 2006, 4:56pm
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Bender lives at Robot Arms.
And Bugs Bunny once stayed at Broken Arms.
Zeldar
July 27, 2006, 6:33pm
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In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche makes reference to the Tarantula Arms as a hotel where she lured her seductees for their trysts. Maybe some enterprising chain will jump on that one.