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“After finding the boxes, I shut up the priest hole and put Figgs off.”
“She turned back to her self-appointed task of counting the dozens of pillboxes ranged on shelves in the ancient priest hole concealed behind a wall panel in the master bedchamber of Wallingham Hall.”
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Agatha Christie
Charming and intriguing words one finds in AG's murder mysteries. Also see Murdered, you say?
ambassadress, aperitif, baluster, cause célèbre, crime passionnel, embankment, embonpoint, galantine, mauvais sujet, mephistophelean, mountebank, purloin and 67 more...
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elbow room
sundry chambers
mezzanine, loggia, rotunda, alcove, nave, breakfast nook, antechamber, priest hole, vestibule, cloakroom, boudoir, scullery and 37 more...
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secret stash
treasure, motherlode, stash, cache, booty, hidey hole, mattress, x marks the spot, hoard, nest egg, wealth, ali baba and 50 more...
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trivet A priest hole is the term given to hiding places for priests built into many of the principal Roman Catholic houses of England during the period when Roman Catholics were persecuted by law in England, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I. (more here.) Jun 18, 2007