Usually means: Hidden room for concealing priests.
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  1. priest hole: Merriam-Webster
  2. priest hole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. priest-hole, priest-hole: Collins English Dictionary
  4. priest hole: Wiktionary
  5. Priest-hole, Priest hole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. priest-hole: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (UK) A secret compartment in a large house, used as a hiding place for priests during the times when Catholicism was forbidden.

Similar:
priest's hole, hiding place, hole, hiding-place, hidingplace, Judas-hole, hide, crypt, sepulchre, glory hole, more...

Opposite:
altar, sanctuary, chapel

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Similar:
priest's hole, hiding place, hole, hiding-place, hidingplace, Judas-hole, hide, crypt, sepulchre, glory hole, more...

Opposite:
altar, sanctuary, chapel



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