rabbit warren

noun

Origin of rabbit warren

First recorded in 1760–70

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Most of Broadway’s houses are operational antiques, with age-old ventilation systems, narrow backstages and suites of dressing rooms that resemble rabbit warrens.
How Broadway is working to ensure covid doesn’t bring the curtain down again | Peter Marks | July 29, 2021 | Washington Post
On their way back to the boat they collected a great quantity of eggs, and came upon a rabbit warren.
Condemned as a Nihilist | George Alfred Henty
And, for the same reason, he avoided treading on freshly excavated earth before the holes of a rabbit warren.
Creatures of the Night | Alfred W. Rees
The pullulating population of Tokyo seemed to have emptied itself, like a rabbit warren, into the streets.
Lafcadio Hearn | Nina H. Kennard
I looked down from the roof this morning on Phari town, lying like a rabbit-warren beneath the fort.
The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund Candler

The mind of the little priest was always a rabbit-warren of wild thoughts that jumped too quickly for him to catch them.
The Wisdom of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton

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