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seclusion lodge en · NOUN

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1. A traditional dwelling placed apart from a community, tribe etc., for the use of those under ceremonial or taboo restrictions.
   • The birth lodge, the puberty rite lodge, the menstrual seclusion lodge, as well as the family dwelling built and owned by the woman, show that previously the Plateau-built environment was almost exclusively under women's purview. 2006, Mary C Wright, in Kelm & Townsend, In the Days of our Grandmothers, p. 265
   • The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society. 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 30:
   • The seclusion lodge houses circumcision initiates, keeping them separate from the rest of the community. 1996, Jerry D Moore, Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes, page 140:

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