2. (colloquial).—A private room; a sanctum (q.v.).

1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 215. Fletcher did not venture into

that holy of holies.

1893. Westminster Gaz., 31 Jan., p. 3, c. 2. The Cabinet Council is

the holy of holies of the British Constitution, and as Mr. Bagehot

long ago regretted, no description of it at once graphic and

authentic has ever been given.

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