carrel
noun
a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
carrell
-
a variation of
carrel.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes carrells were set up in the cloister, a carrell being a sort of pew, in which study could be conducted with more privacy than in the open cloister.
From The Story of Books by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
The Succentor is to have his seat and his carrell on the bench near the press—by which the bench which commonly ran along the cloister-wall is obviously meant.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
Each carrell must have closely resembled a modern sentry-box, with this difference, that one side was formed by a light of the window looking into the cloister-garth, opposite to which was the door of entrance.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
The seat would be on one side of the carrell and the desk on the other, the latter being so arranged that the light would enter on the reader's left hand.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
And in every carrell was a deske to lye there books on.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
