cubbyhole

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“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

She made a cubbyhole in some bamboo in her back garden and read The Secret Garden.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2019

Or merely find your little cubbyhole in the cosmos.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2019

That might make his little cubbyhole more comfy, though I certainly wouldn’t like to sleep there.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank