nookery
Americannoun
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nookeries
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Meanwhile Mistress Katherine sat before the fire in the tower nookery while Janet unpacked the luggage.
From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton
Accordingly he bought a little estate near Tarrytown on the Hudson River, and had the cottage on this land made over into “a little nookery somewhat in the Dutch style, quaint, but unpretending.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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