priest-hole
priest's hole
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noun
a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
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prier, priest, priestcraft, priestess, priestfish, priest-hole, priesthood, Priestley, priestly, priest-ridden, prig
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