priest-hole

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Upstairs, besides the bedrooms, was a little chapel with some remains of Gothic carving, and a few interesting pictures of the fifteenth century; a cunningly contrived priest-hole, and a long gallery lined with dusty books, whither my lord used to repair on rainy days.

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“Does the priest of your ‘priest-hole’ walk?”

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To such vandals we can only emphasise the remarks we have already made about the market value of a "priest-hole" nowadays.

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Some priest who had used this priest-hole years before had left it there in his hurry; I wondered how.

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