Hermitage
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English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Hermitage
- A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5073).
- A hamlet in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6407).
- A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY5095).
- A small city in Bradley County, Arkansas, United States.
- A former settlement in Mendocino County, California, United States.
- A former community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States.
- A small city, the county seat of Hickory County, Missouri, United States.
- A city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A neighbourhood of Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
- A settlement in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
Noun
[edit]Hermitage (uncountable)
- 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.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 1:
- 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;...
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 185:
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