Bolt-hole

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of bolthole. alt-of, alternative

    "“You are all over the show,” my friend texted me, and for weeks after I endured brutal mockery that my Parisian bolt-hole was about to become a tourist site, like Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone or the Harry Potter train station platform."

  2. 2
    a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den wordnet

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asylumback doorback stairsback waycacheconcealment

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"“You are all over the show,” my friend texted me, and for weeks after I endured brutal mockery that my Parisian bolt-hole was about to become a tourist site, like Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone or the Harry Potter train station platform."

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