Both Uses of
recluse
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- across from the house where the shoemaker, Rasheed, lived with his reclusive wife.
p. 110..5reclusive = avoiding contact with others
- Their leader was a mysterious, illiterate, one-eyed recluse named Mullah Omar, who, Rasheed said with some amusement, called himself Ameer-ul-Mumineen, Leader of the Faithful.
p. 274..1 *recluse = someone withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)
Definition:
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(recluse) someone withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)