cubbyhole
Americannoun
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a small enclosed space or room
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any small compartment, such as a pigeonhole
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Origin of cubbyhole
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“I don’t begrudge anyone retiring,” longtime regular Daniel Eiben said Sept. 15, poking his head into Yoshimura’s cluttered cubbyhole of an office on the store’s penultimate day in business.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
She was one of just two women on Brzezinski’s staff and occupied a windowless cubbyhole in the West Wing, but Dr. Albright relished her proximity to power.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
More than a half-dozen snowboards hang in the entryway over a cubbyhole stuffed with boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
She made a cubbyhole in some bamboo in her back garden and read The Secret Garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2019
The first night, still in thick timber, he instinctively made a little snow cave, wrapped himself in a blanket, and slept warmly in his icy cubbyhole.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Long before first pitch, a cowboy hat is set behind the bat rack and under three rows of cubbyholes housing helmets in the Angels dugout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Different passes allow different levels of access to halls, bars, committee rooms and cubbyholes within the Victorian-age premises.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
“One of the young residents there in the early 1980s said: ‘They may be hiding at the Barbizon in their little cubbyholes, but they are still here in New York.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2021
She published a monograph on Wooton’s Patent Secretary, an ornate desk designed and built in Indiana that had 100 cubbyholes and whose hinged wings could be folded and locked.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2020
These were less grand: storerooms, cupboards, annexes, cubbyholes.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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