Synonyms:
hermitage
Meaning: the abode of a hermit
Usage examples
This jousts was done to-fore the hermitage where a recluse dwelled.
"The Father Superior invites all of you gentlemen to dine with him after your visit to the hermitage.
Now when the baby was two years old, the duke decided that they must take him to a hermitage to be baptized.
Which wine do you prefer--canary, hermitage, champagne?" and she ran over a long list, out of which his majesty made his choice.
Then he departed from the cross on foot into a forest; and so by prime he came to an high hill, and found an hermitage and a hermit therein which was going unto mass.
And as they came by an hermitage even by a churchyard, there came the knight Garlon invisible, and smote this knight, Perin de Mountbeliard, through the body with a spear.
And then they took the way under the castle, and there they lost the way that Sir Galahad rode, and there everych of them departed from other; and Sir Gawaine rode till he came to an hermitage, and there he found the good man saying his evensong of Our Lady; and there Sir Gawaine asked harbour for charity, and the good man granted it him gladly.