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hermitage

[hur-mi-tij, er-mi-tahzh] / ˈhɜr mɪ tɪdʒ, ˌɛr mɪˈtɑʒ /
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The manuscript opens with the life of Giovanni of Florence, who built the Augustinian hermitage of Santa Lucia in Larniano with help from local farmers.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

Unless somebody at Google HQ has just made a fix, Google Maps will tell you incorrectly that the hermitage and lodge are beyond the road closure.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

For its farewell, Olafsson played it more fluidly, but also with more confidence in the rightness of its hermitage.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Its artefacts and antiquities consultant Nigel Mills suggested the cross could have been connected with the medieval hermitage and chapel at Throckenholt, which is within the Sutton St Edmund parish.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2022

It was like a forgotten hermitage — the cave hidden beneath the growth, the strange fertility goddess statue of Our Ladybird with her tattered Miss Miss sash in place.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray