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Definition of Hole-in-the-wall
1. Noun. A small unpretentious out-of-the-way place. "His office was a hole-in-the-wall"
Definition of Hole-in-the-wall
1. Noun. a small or obscure place, especially such a restaurant ¹
2. Noun. (colloquial chiefly British) an automated teller machine (ATM) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hole-in-the-wall
Literary usage of Hole-in-the-wall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"... —Hole in the Wall—A wrecker's hut— Bahama vampyres—Light houses—Conspiracy—Wall
of Abaco —Natural Bridge—Cause^—Night scene—Speak a packet ship —A ..."
2. The circular staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1908)
"CHAPTER XVIII A HOLE IN THE WALL MY taking the detective out to Sunnyside raised
an unexpected storm of protest from Gertrude and Halsey. ..."
3. The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors by Edmund March Blunt, George William Blunt (1847)
"The land between Rocky Point and the hole-in-the-wall forms a deep bay, ...
At one-third of a mile from the hole-in-the-wall, this lighthouse has been ..."
4. Gondola Days by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1897)
"... to the Veneta Marina below the Arsenal; and my dear friend Luigi and his fellow
tramps, to a little hole in the wall on the Via Garibaldi. ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"A peep-hole in the wall of a castle, from whence to shoot in safety at the enemy.
Lang. loup, a small window in a roof. ..."
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