grotto

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For his grotto was his own private and exclusive hermitage CHAPTER SIX THE BATTLE WITH THE SHEPHERD BOYS The relations between Napoleon and the shepherd boys of the Ajaccio hillsides were not improved by his unsatisfactory food-trade during his bread-and-water days Whenever he took his walks abroad in their direction, the belligerent shepherd boys made haste to annoy and attack him.

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  1. noun A small cave or cavern.
  2. noun An artificial structure or excavation made to resemble a cave or cavern.

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cavern ·  glade ·  canyon ·  chasm ·  nook ·  vault ·  crypt ·  passageway ·  waterfall ·  vale ·  grove ·  labyrinth
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  1. Alteration of Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta, from Latin crypta, vault; see crypt.

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  1. A mistaken form (as if Italian masculine) of earlier grotta (q. v.) (also grot, q. v., = Dutch grot, from F.) = G. Danish grotte = Sw. grotta = French grotte, from Italian grotta, feminine, = Spanish Portuguese gruta = Provencal crota, earlier cropta = Old French crote, croute, a grotto, a cave, from Middle Latin grupta, crupta, corrupt forms of Latin crypta, an underground passage or chamber, a vault, cave, grotto, crypt: see crypt, which is thus a doublet of grotto.
 

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/ˈgrɑtoʊ/
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