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as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others
the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road
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Recent Examples of hermitage
While medieval hermitages were used chiefly for religious purposes, English garden hermitages were decorative (a type of architecture known as garden follies), incorporating natural elements like tree roots or drawing inspiration from rustic, pastoral designs.
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Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
The novel’s narrator, a botanist, lives there in a hermitage, working with his brother to catalogue the flora of the region.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
From the Mirador de Sant Joan at the top of the funicular, hikers can choose from several routes of varying difficulty that lead to different hermitages in the mountains.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
So large has Merton’s influence been on Brandt that the latter even named his hermitage Merton House.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2022
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Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
The novel’s narrator, a botanist, lives there in a hermitage, working with his brother to catalogue the flora of the region.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
From the Mirador de Sant Joan at the top of the funicular, hikers can choose from several routes of varying difficulty that lead to different hermitages in the mountains.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
So large has Merton’s influence been on Brandt that the latter even named his hermitage Merton House.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermitage
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The family appreciated the place as a hideout, remembered Dylan’s local fix-it-man at the time, Michael Leshner.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Dec. 2024
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For decades, travelers have been able to see the Frank family’s hideout by visiting the Anne Frank House, a biographical museum created in the 1950s in collaboration with her father, Otto Frank.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Nothing could be further from the truth, which explains why Azerbaijan continues to destroy Armenian cultural and historic sites, including churches and monasteries, which have stood for hundreds of years in attempt to erase any traces of Armenian existence in the region.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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The action hops from the streets of London to a monastery outside Ankara to Kraven’s Siberian taiga hideout, where Calypso puts her summer camp archery skills to good use with a crossbow.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
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Last season, the room was designed to look like a cave, but it's been revamped to look like a C-list movie supervillain's lair.Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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One night, after warning Armand to steer clear of the Theatre, Louis struts into the coven’s lair and tosses gasoline on their coffins.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 June 2024
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The Cathedral of Brixen (Duomo di Bressanone) and the cloister — located in the same complex — should be the first stops on your list.Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
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During the two decades before the mass possession at Loudun, the Ursulines, originally a very active and public order, had been forced into the cloister.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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This female Red-bellied Woodpecker had been investigating this Screech Owl nest for a couple of days.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The scrub-jays used to nest in mid-March, but the nesting period has shifted to late February, giving snakes a longer amount of time during the spring season to feed on the nests.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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