sanctum

pyhättö A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.
(quote-book)
(quote-journal)|date=20 February 2016|passage=His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.
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