snuggery
Americannoun
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a cosy and comfortable place or room
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another name for snug
Etymology
Origin of snuggery
Example Sentences
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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
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
May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back to Sunningdale, while Queen Mary went by train.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seated amidst them Der Reichs-f?hrer talked with Germans whom he trusts, emerged daisy-fresh, dashed to his Bavarian mountain snuggery.
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
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