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Hermitage
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hermitage
English
Proper noun
A place in the United Kingdom:
en village/and/cpar in lgdist/West Berkshire co/Berkshire cc/England OS grid ref SU5073. Parish map (Berkshire)
en small village/and/cpar (served by High Stoy (Group) Parish Council) in co/Dorset cc/England previously in dist/West Dorset OS grid ref ST6407. Parish map (Dorset)
en village par/Southbourne dist/Chichester co/West Sussex cc/England OS grid ref SU7505. List of United Kingdom locations: Hen-Hh#Heo-Hey
en small village carea/Scottish Borders cc/Scotland OS grid ref NY5095.
en place c/USA:
en small city co/Bradley County s/Arkansas.
en former settlement co/Mendocino County s/California.
en former community par/Pointe Coupee Parish s/Louisiana.
en small city/county seat co/Hickory County s/Missouri.
en city co/Mercer County s/Pennsylvania.
en neighbourhood city/Nashville s/Tennessee.
en settlement isl/Saint Croix terr/United States Virgin Islands.
en locality isl/Saint John terr/United States Virgin Islands.
en town on isl/Carriacou c/Grenada.
en neighbourhood in north-east city/Edmonton p/Alberta c/Canada.
en locality council:Suf/Central Highlands central s/Tasmania c/Australia.
Derived terms
en Hermitage Water
Noun
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A wine produced near Valence, Drôme.
1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 185:
Here a real supper was elegantly served with choice wines, particularly white hermitage, which I never before had tasted.
1 I You will do very well, my lady, very well indeed. I will send you in a couple of dozen of capital sherry, fit for the dons, and some hermitage, by no means to be sneezed at;...
References
en Wines