### Clue: Modest hotel snubbed Brahmans for instance (5)
### Answer: CASTE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Brahmans for instance
  "chaste",modest, as usually applied to females **minus**(…snubbed) H(represented by "hotel" in the phonetic alphabet).
Answer:  Or Brahmins, members of the highest, or priestly, class in the caste system of the Hindus.