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[HUR-mi-tidj] 
1. the abode of a hermit or a group of hermits; an abbey
2. a place where one can live in seclusion; a hideaway or retreat: "I think of it as my private hermitage now -- even though it's nothing more than patch of grass by the river where I can pitch my tent and smell the trees."
3. a palace in St. Petersburg built by Catherine II, now in use as an art museum
Origin:
Approximately 1300; from Old French, 'hermitage', or 'ermitage', from 'heremite': religious recluse, or 'hermite': hermit; from Late Latin, 'ermita'; from Greek, 'eremites': person of the desert, from 'eremia': desert, from 'eremos': uninhabited. In Action:
"Ever upbeat, he likens his switch from the outside world to his Internet hermitage as a move from a beautiful beachfront property to a scenic mountain spot. 'I have not had any time to miss anything,' he said.
The former UPS computing systems manager has had trouble finding shoes, but not potential wives. Women from all over the world have proposed online. But DotComGuy considers himself an 'old-fashioned kind of guy.'"
Richard Stenger. 'Does DotComguy live in e-utopia or a publicity hut?' CNN.com (January 25, 2000).
On that Note:
The Hermitage is also the name of one of the most magnificent museums in the world. Located in the northern city of St. Petersburg, Russia, the State Hermitage Museum rests on a picturesque bank of the Neva River. St. Petersburg is so far north that the sun does not fully go down in the summer and from June 11th to July 2nd, the nights are as bright as early evening.
One of the Hermitage's main buildings is the Winter Palace. Designed with the explicit goal of surpassing all European palaces in beauty, the 240 room structure was completed in 1762. The palace was the official residence of Russian royalty until the 1917 revolution, when the Romanovs were dethroned and murdered. The buildings and collections of the State Hermitage Museum are largely attributed to Catherine the Great, an avid art collector who ruled Russia for 34 years.
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