inglenook
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of inglenook
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Example Sentences
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They're only hiding in the inglenook just beyond the boating lake.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
Unlike Lutyens, Mackintosh was not willing to knock up a Tudorbethan inglenook to order.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2013
The inglenook was probably put together from remnants and refimshed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Think of the pleasure and the honour of receiving that missive, while you are sitting in the inglenook amidst your family.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
The same evening saw her seated in the inglenook opposite Nicholas Snyders, who smoked and seemed bored.
From The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, or, The Miser of Zandam by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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