inglenook
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
Yet no one had retired, except the children and "old Feyther Taft," who being too deaf to catch many words, had some time ago gone back to his inglenook.
From Adam Bede by George Eliot
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