Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dwelling in a cave; hidden.
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Examples
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Not content with mere breeding, gathering, and doing ALL the tedious cave-keeping, Neanderthal females, with their grandiose crania and delusional sense of lingual entitlement, decided anything males could do, they could do better.
"So what did Neanderthal women do all day?" Ann Althouse 2006
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He was as grave and taciturn as some cave-keeping anchorite.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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So in _Lucrece_, l. 1250, we have 'cave-keeping evils.'
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590
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