Hermitage
['hɜːmɪtɪdʒ] or ['hɝmɪtɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.
(n.) A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drome.
Typist: Psyche
Examples
- It is from the Hermitage, there on the side of Vesuvius, that one should see Naples and die. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To be your wife and live in Paris would be heaven to me; but I would rather live with you in a hermitage here than not be yours at all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- By the true Lord, answered the knight, every thing in your hermitage is miraculous, Holy Clerk! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I think she will be pleased with the hermitage. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- And yet, far from that, I could live and die in a hermitage here, with proper work to do. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Albert