cubbyhole
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Previosly voted Wales' favourite word, Cwtch means hug or cuddle - however it's second meaning is a cubbyhole or cupboard; a small space in which to store things safely.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024
“I don’t begrudge anyone retiring,” longtime regular Daniel Eiben said Sept. 15, poking his head into Yoshimura’s cluttered cubbyhole of an office on the store’s penultimate day in business.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
In a cubbyhole beneath an attic sat a radio room complete with desks, where detainees tuned in nightly to the BBC.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
Inside a cubbyhole in a losing clubhouse, the black cowboy hat rested beside a pair of auburn boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2019
The first night, still in thick timber, he instinctively made a little snow cave, wrapped himself in a blanket, and slept warmly in his icy cubbyhole.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Long before first pitch, a cowboy hat is set behind the bat rack and under three rows of cubbyholes housing helmets in the Angels dugout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Different passes allow different levels of access to halls, bars, committee rooms and cubbyholes within the Victorian-age premises.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
“One of the young residents there in the early 1980s said: ‘They may be hiding at the Barbizon in their little cubbyholes, but they are still here in New York.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2021
To accommodate them, Capitol carpenters have installed a cabinet of cubbyholes, complete with charging cables, in the cloakrooms just outside the Senate floor.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
Long loops and strands of yarn dangled out of the cubbyholes, and the browns and grays and purples were mixed in with the ochres and olive greens and dark blues.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
