Antres
a cavern; cave.
historical examples
he took up the zoology of pliny, and pursued his accounts of “antres vast, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.”
olla podrida frederick marryat (aka captain marryat)
noun
(archaic) a cavern or cave
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