| 单词 | priest's hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspriest's hole priest's hole n. (also priest hole) now historical a secret chamber or similar hiding place for a Roman Catholic priest, esp. in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > passage or chamber secretaryc1440 priest's hole1660 thalamus1850 serdab1877 coulisse1903 1660 S. Pepys Diary 23 May (1970) I. 156 At a Catholique house, he was fain to lie in the priests hole a good while. 1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. i. 31 As he passed often thro' the hands of Catholics, the Priest's hole, as they called it, the place, where they were obliged to conceal their persecuted priests, was sometimes employed for sheltering their distressed sovereign. 1890 D. B. W. Sladen Lester the Loyalist 5 The panels hid priest-holes Guarding no longer priests, but massive plate and cut crystal. 1994 Remnant 15 July 11/2 Attending a Tridentine Mass evokes the feelings of those Catholics in Elizabethan-Protestant England who attended the Mass of some fugitive priest in hiding, who came out of the priest-hole. < as lemmas |
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