inglenook
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of inglenook
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
It was, indeed, this fondness for the inglenook that had earned her the name of Cinderella.
From The Holiday Round by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
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 Eliot, George
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