antre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of antre
1595–1605; < Middle French < Latin antrum. See antrum
Example Sentences
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Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
From almost earliest youth I raised the lids o' the truth, And forced her bend on me her shrinking sight; Ever I knew me Beauty's eremite, In antre of this lowly body set.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis
There Chiron old, In the Pelethronian antre, taught thee lore: The plants, he taught, and by the shining stars In forests dim to steer.
From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
There Chiron old, In the Pelethronian antre, taught thee lore; The plants he taught, and by the shining stars In forests dim to steer.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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