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
As Kumar planted himself in his cubbyhole, Madhu, a volunteer who addressed him as “boss,” called for advice on whether a village temple should install surveillance cameras.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
And when you sneeze in one cubbyhole, a stranger in another calls out, “Bless you.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 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 automatic mop came out of its cubbyhole to repair the damage.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
She’d also like to see childcare assistance and facilities become available to female athletes so they don’t have to search for bathrooms or cubbyholes to tend to their children during competitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
She published a monograph on Wooton’s Patent Secretary, an ornate desk designed and built in Indiana that had 100 cubbyholes and whose hinged wings could be folded and locked.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2020
Granny’s shop had once been a tidy place, where each ball of yarn and spool of thread had its spot in the cubbyholes that lined the walls.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
