hiding-place
[f. hiding vbl. n.1]
A place in which one hides or conceals oneself.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 239/2 Hydynge place, latibulum..latebra. 1560 Bible (Genev.) Isa. xxxii. 2 That man shalbe as an hiding place from the winde. 1611 ― Ps. cxix. 114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1790) VII. 278 (Jod.) They seldom therefore seek for hiding-places before the fall of the leaf. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 641 The Protestants every where came forth from their hidingplaces. |