by-placen.
/ˈbʌɪpleɪs/ A place situated aside, an out-of-the-way spot; an odd corner; also figurative.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] > out-of-the-way place
out-corner1530
out-place1530
by-corner1567
by-place1580
out-nook1605
by-part1707
by-nook1862
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Lieux destournez, by~places.
1619 M. Drayton Barons Warres vi. xlviii, in Poems (rev. ed.) 88 Till in the Castle, in an odde by-place, It casts the foule Maske from its duskie Face.
1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air Pref. 5 in Ess. Effects Motion I found it laid in a by~place.
1714 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 256 She liued at a Farm called Whites, a By-place in the Parish of Beconsfield.
1835 N. Hawthorne Old Woman's Tale in Tales & Sketches Traditions lurking in the corners and by-places of my mind.
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