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Definition of Hermitages
1. hermitage [n] - See also: hermitage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hermitages
Literary usage of Hermitages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe by Georgina Muir Mackenzie, Adelina Paulina Irby (1877)
"These 'hermitages are cells in the banks of the ... Two of these hermitages were
inhabited, respectively, for some years by King ..."
2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"The hermitages were surrounded with large forest trees, which yielded pure and
delicious ... Thus adorned the hermitages resembled the habitation of Brahma. ..."
3. Sinai and Palestine: In Connection with Their History by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1875)
"Hermitages, and Convent of St. Catherine. 5. Mahomet.. Present State of the Convent.
7. Tomb of Sheykh Saleh. Pp. 48—57. ..."
4. Annals of the Artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"... called the Hermitages of St. Anthony and St. Paul, which he adorned with frescoes.
The first was a plain structure, placed in an artificial wilderness; ..."
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