Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Retirement

Retirement , noun

[Compare French retirement.]

1.
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. — Goldsmith
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. — Thomson
2.
A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [Archaic]
This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. — Evelyn
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. — Addison