A place or structure that provides partial shelter or serves as a halfway refuge.
From hemi- (half) + -ery (suffix meaning place). An archaic or specialized term that emerged to describe incomplete shelters or temporary refuges.
In medieval times, a hemitery might have been a partially enclosed space used as temporary shelter—the 'hemi' part emphasizes that it's not a complete refuge, just a halfway-adequate one.
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