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A house built around the radical idea that other people are optional.
means A secluded dwelling for a hermit, or any retreat where solitude is the whole point.
from From Old French ermitage, rooted in Greek eremites, dweller of the eremos, the desert wasteland where early Christian recluses fled to find God and lose everyone else.
Russian palaceSt. Petersburg's Hermitage holds millions of artworks, ironically crowded.
Wine labelA prized French Rhone wine bears the name.
Ornamental hermits18th-century estates hired men to live as decorative recluses.