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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After some involved negotiations, she accompanies Brent on his vacation at a mountain snuggery, the theory of all concerned being that in her ugly make-up the cinemactress would be safe with any man.
From Time Magazine Archive
She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which the Prime Minister departs calmly puffing at his famed pipe.
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
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
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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