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priest-hole

priest's hole

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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Nearby words

  1. prideful,
  2. prie,
  3. prie-dieu,
  4. prier,
  5. priest,
  6. priest-ridden,
  7. priestcraft,
  8. priestess,
  9. priestfish,
  10. priesthood
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