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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Hereafter money is going to be spent getting much nearer to the facts of life in each royal Balkan sty and snuggery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ensconced among the motto-stitched cushions of his rustic snuggery at Berchtesgaden, Adolf Hitler, ever since the close of the Olympic Games, has been receiving numbers of mysterious visitors.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had skipped back to her native land from her $4-million, 50-room Paris snuggery in 1940 after some 30 years abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere.
From Time Magazine Archive
I somersaulted deeper into my snuggery of misery.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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
The Housemasters dwelt severally in their own strongholds, thanking Heaven that their Houses were not as other Houses were; and the Junior Staff lived roundabout, in cottages and chummeries and snuggeries, throughout Studley Village.
From A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
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 James Fenimore Cooper
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 W.D.E. Evans
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