snuggery
Americannoun
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a cosy and comfortable place or room
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another name for snug
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Origin of snuggery
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Last week the two men were closeted in the Realmleader's mountain snuggery amid the pungent pines of Bavaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Divided into a public and private saloon bar, the pub usually included a snack bar, called a "snuggery," selling such delicacies as toad-in-the-hole and steak-and-kidney pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
A quantity of royal pots & pans, some from Buckingham Palace and others from His Majesty's suburban snuggery Fort Belvedere, were turned over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason.
From Time Magazine Archive
Already on vacation was Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm at his rustic snuggery near Munich.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one end of the Mews there was a little fireplace and a kind of snuggery, like the place in a saddle-room where the grooms sit to clean their tack on wet nights after foxhunting.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Spend time in the snuggeries of Mr. Cunningham’s lonely worlds — in Bushwick, in the West Village, in a cottage somewhere — and you’re sure to feel less alone.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2015
On the surface, the German Fleet was hiding in its snuggeries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some such snuggeries very possibly exist in England, among the middling classes; but I believe all over the continent of Europe style is never attempted without more suitable means to carry out the intention.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
But I say, look here, Master Waller,” said Bunny thoughtfully, “I could hide that chap in one of my snuggeries; but what about the winter time?”
From The New Forest Spy by Evans, W.D.E.
I had the curiosity to enter one of these little snuggeries, which was unoccupied.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Nordhoff, Charles
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