reclusage rare.
[a. OF. reclusage (Godef.): see recluse a. + -age.]
† 1. A hermitage, place of seclusion. (Only in Caxton.) Obs.
| 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. viii, Ulixes bethought hym..that Achylles was in some reclusage. 1483 ― Gold. Leg. 111 b/1 He fledde the world and entred into a reclusage. |
2. Retirement, reclusion.
| 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Nov. 742/3 For more than half a lifetime..he had enjoyed a voluntary reclusage on the Riviera di Levante. |