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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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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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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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