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  • For the windowless wall on the north side, Mr. Bremer riffed on the most prosaic but necessary man-cave fixture—a really big television.

    A Quiet Cave for a Hectic Trader Juliet Chung 2011

  • For the windowless wall on the north side, Mr. Bremer riffed on the most prosaic but necessary man-cave fixture—a really big television.

    A Quiet Cave for a Hectic Trader Juliet Chung 2011

  • The man-cave hadn't been invented yet, so no Barcaloungers to sit on.

    My Brain is a Pre-Historic Babe Magnet Con Chapman 2011

  • Not only are the titular hunters usually incapable of seeing beyond the shade of White-Winged Dove in the spare room, every one of them seems to want a man-cave apparently, the new "office" or claims to need miles of extra space for "entertaining," like they're the Graysons of Revenge and throw parties on a weekly basis.

    Watercooler: Are You Sold on House Hunters? 2012

  • Adam Friedberg for The Wall Street Journal For the windowless wall on the north side, Mr. Bremer riffed on the most prosaic but necessary man-cave fixture—a really big television.

    A Trader's Cavernous Condominium 2011

  • Adam Friedberg for The Wall Street Journal For the windowless wall on the north side, Mr. Bremer riffed on the most prosaic but necessary man-cave fixture—a really big television.

    A Trader's Cavernous Condominium 2011

  • Always a drinker -- think back to the mid-day nap in the show's pilot episode -- Don is drinking heavily with the advent of the holidays. and it's especially evident as he drags himself back to his man-cave of a Greenwich Village flat at the end of his days.

    William Bradley: Mad Men Review: "Christmas Comes But Once A Year," Except for These Three Wise Guys 2010

  • Always a drinker -- think back to the mid-day nap in the show's pilot episode -- Don is drinking heavily with the advent of the holidays. and it's especially evident as he drags himself back to his man-cave of a Greenwich Village flat at the end of his days.

    William Bradley: Mad Men Review: "Christmas Comes But Once A Year," Except for These Three Wise Guys 2010

  • So when you say you have "noticed a lot of men wearing black button-down shirts", you mean you have been watching a lot of Alan Shearer and Alan Hansen, and the fact that you, adorably, have deduced that their respective wardrobes are in anyway connected to the land of the stylish suggests, my dear boy, that it is time to leave your man-cave and emerge, blinking and stretching, into the real world again.

    Don't take fashion tips from Alan Shearer 2010

  • Part tree-house, part man-cave, part studio, part cabinet of curiosities, it is a place that feels very different than the house below.

    John Seed: Los Angeles Artist F. Scott Hess Walks the Tightrope 2010

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