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hideaway, n. and a.|ˈhaɪdəweɪ|
A. n.
1. One who hides himself away; a fugitive. (Cf. runaway, stowaway.)
1871Echo 5 Jan., The hideaways were soon killed or taken prisoners. 1883G. Allen in Col. Clout's Calendar 33 Compelled the hide-aways to reveal themselves.
2. A small, quiet restaurant, etc., or a secluded place of entertainment.
1929World's Work Nov. 40/2 The vaudeville performer on the two-a-day has played to punks in the hide⁓aways who turned his riot into an oil can. 1939C. Morley Kitty Foyle xviii. 171 He took me to a French hideaway up on Pine Street. 1962Times 9 May 7/1 Dozens of inexpensive hideaways where the entertainment ranges from progressive jazz quartets to the folk songs of the South and West. 1971New Yorker 11 Sept. 99/2 (Advt.), We can take you on a tour of romantic little hideaways, golden beaches and the excitement of the bullring.
3. A place of concealment or retreat.
1930‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. ii. xiii. 104 This is also the conference room for directors' meetings, the Old Man's hideaway, et cetera. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb II. 12 A Bulgarian leader who was lying wounded in a hideaway. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Nov. 680/5 They meet in his hideaway to discuss the state of the world.
B. adj. That hides or is hidden away.
1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. xvii. 177 Still little hideaway nooks. 1891Atkinson Last Giant-Killers 3 In those deep hide-away valleys or dales. |