The notorious madam spent the last two decades of her life as a virtual recluse.
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Beane is a recluse, hiding out from life when he's not at work in his tollbooth.
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Retreating in isolation to his mansion, Bruce Wayne has become a lonely recluse.
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Otherwise, she became a recluse, leaving her room only for her visits to church.
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For the first few years after Madeleine disappeared, Kate was a virtual recluse.
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She is afraid as the doctor told her the bite may have been from a brown recluse.
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If she was bitten by a brown recluse, she would have some severe symptoms by now.
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Revelations about a reticent artist-Hyman Bloom, the artist, was not a recluse.
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His health deteriorated in his final years, and he became something of a recluse.
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Hermit: one who lives in solitude
Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"
A recluse is someone in isolation who hides away from the attention of the public, a person who lives in solitude, i.e. seclusion from intercourse with the world. The word is from the Latin recludere, which means "shut up" or "sequester".
The Recluse was the second single taken from the album The Ugly Organ by American emo band Cursive. It was released as a single in 2004. The album track "The Recluse" is backed with the exclusive non-album tracks "Once" and "Adapt".
The Defamation of Strickland Banks is the second studio album from English rapper Plan B which was released on 12 April 2010. ...
(n.): someone who stays away from society and the company of others