Noun
tracking the bear back to its lair
She runs the project from her private lair in the suburbs.
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More recently, Episode 4 ended with Muse lugging a man into a gruesome lair of sorts, to extract an unhealthy amount of blood from a femoral artery.—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Mar. 2025 The store straddles a mood between Californian cool and British rock-star lair, with eyewear displayed amid vintage books and charming trinkets, like a ceramic cigar-smoking Winston Churchill.—Miles Socha, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025 There are a few shelves of bottles with pipettes in them, like the lair of some sort of mad apothecary.—Nick Miller, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025 Along the way, viewers will get a better look at Muse’s aforementioned lair, which became quite an attraction even for those who worked on the series.—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lair
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English leger; akin to Old High German legar bed, Old English licgan to lie — more at lie
Verb
Scots lair mire
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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