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A room that lets you off the hook just by being named after a cave.
means A small, cozy room in a home set aside for relaxing, reading, or informal work — or, more literally, the lair where a wild animal sleeps and shelters.
from From Old English denn, meaning the lair or hollow where a beast holes up, related to words for a low-lying wooded valley. The cozy-room sense crept in much later, as people borrowed the snug, sheltered feeling of an animal's hideaway and applied it to a private corner of the house — the place you retreat to and pull the metaphorical cave-mouth shut behind you.
- animal origin
- Named for the burrow where beasts hide and sleep
- thieves' home
- A den of thieves is older than the King James Bible
- scout pack
- Cub Scouts gather in dens led by den mothers
- lion test
- Daniel survived a literal den overnight, unbitten
- opium past
- Opium dens defined whole vice districts of the 1800s
den haag — capital of south holland, netherlands, seat of government
lion's den — daniel 6 biblical story, babylon ~6th century bc
bears den — soldier field, chicago bears stadium, nicknamed 'the den'