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larder
priest hole
parquet floor
drawing room
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priest hole

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A secret compartment in a large house, used as a hiding place for priests during the times when Catholicism was forbidden.


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"He must have prepared a secret place beforehand [...] You know, like a Priest's Hole in old manor houses."

Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.175 (1939)
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Baldrick: [ducking into a priest hole] No. The fact is there are two men outside who've come to kill you.
Blackadder: WHAT?!

BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Archbishop
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if you negotiate the minefield in the drive,
and beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes,
and if you make it past the shotgun in the hall...
dial the combination... open the priesthole...
and if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall

Pink Floyd. "The Final Cut"
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