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hiding-place
[f. hiding vbl. n.1]
A place in which one hides or conceals oneself.
c1440Promp. Parv. 239/2 Hydynge place, latibulum..latebra. 1560Bible (Genev.) Isa. xxxii. 2 That man shalbe as an hiding place from the winde. 1611― Ps. cxix. 114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1790) VII. 278 (Jod.) They seldom therefore seek for hiding-places before the fall of the leaf. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 641 The Protestants every where came forth from their hidingplaces. |