Hermitage

Hermitage

1. A place in the United Kingdom:
   1. A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5073). ^[1]
   2. A small village and civil parish (served by High Stoy (Group) Parish Council) in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6407). ^[2]
   3. A village in Southbourne parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7505). ^[3]
   4. A small village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY5095).
2. A place in the United States:
   1. A small city in Bradley County, Arkansas.
   2. A former settlement in Mendocino County, California.
   3. A former community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
   4. A small city, the county seat of Hickory County, Missouri.
   5. A city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
   6. A neighbourhood of Nashville, Tennessee.
3. A settlement in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
4. A locality in Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.
5. A town on Carriacou, Grenada.
6. A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

• Hermitage Water

Hermitage (uncountable)

1. A wine produced near Valence, Drôme.
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 185:

     Here a real supper was elegantly served […] with choice wines, particularly white hermitage, which I never before had tasted.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 1:

     You will do very well, my lady, very well indeed. I will send you in a couple of dozen of capital sherry, fit for the dons, and some hermitage, by no means to be sneezed at;...