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Definition of Hiding place

1. Noun. A place suitable for hiding something (such as yourself).

Definition of Hiding place

1. Noun. a place where something or someone may be safely hidden ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hiding Place

Literary usage of Hiding place

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"nd the intensified sensitiveness of the modern cultured man—all these together have caused aa- trology to emerge from its hiding place among paltry ..."

2. Divine Hymns: Or Spiritual Songs; for the Use of Religious Assemblies and by Samuel Sleeper (1803)
"V. Tht hiding place. ... Too proud to feek a hiding place. 3 En wrapt in daik Egyptian night, ... And thus became their hiding-place. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"... as a hiding-place. When next The interview is hero interrupted by has retired to the solitary hills of ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To break out of bounds. To go beyond the prescribed limita Break Cover ('/'-). To start forth from a hiding-place. Break Down (To). ..."

5. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"... reported Death—Charles listens to them from his Hiding- place—Removes to Charmouth—Disappointed in his Hopes of Escape—His narrow Escape at Lyme—Nearly ..."

6. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"... who harried them from one hiding-place to another, they came to the inevitable conclusion that their only safety lay ..."

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