warren

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Cathedral's like a rabbit-warren, and whoever threw the man through that doorway no doubt knew how to slip away unobserved.

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  1. noun An area where rabbits live in burrows.
  2. noun A colony of rabbits. See Synonyms at flock1.
  3. noun An enclosure for small game animals.

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  • Surely this was deep within the warren, and virtually impassable to human beings. —  Triple Detente by Piers Anthony
  • The mound was a warren, a tumble of broken buildings run together, with forgotten doors and unlighted windows peering from odd angles under a lumpy, snow-covered roof. —  EBSCOhost
  • Only not here, with people popping in and out like a warren, and the police on the doorstep every half hour or so. —  Out of the Past - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 23: 1953
  • She glanced quickly outside at the deserted tunnels of High Mother's warren, her ears straining to hear the sounds of approaching guards but hearing only a moist, subterranean silence. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 02 - February 1997
  • The father, an industrious, respectable, elderly Scotsman, supported his family at Inch by the proceeds of a rabbit-warren which he rented. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
 

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  1. Middle English warenne, from Old North French, enclosure; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English warrayne, wareine (= Dutch warande, a park), from Old French warenne, varenne, varene, garenne (Middle Latin warenna), a warren or preserve for rabbits, hares, fish, etc., from warir, keep, defend: see ware, warrant
 

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/ˈwɑrɛn/
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