英语词汇den of thieves的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	den of thieves
词源	den of thieves. Den is recorded as “the lair or habitation of a wild beast” at least as far back as Beowulf, written sometime in the 10th century. By the 18th century the word began to be used for a secret hiding place of thieves or the like, Daniel De- foe first recording the expression den of thieves in Robinson Crusoe (1719).
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