| Back | inglenook \ING-guhl-nook\ |
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| Front | noun A corner or nook near a fireplace. [Inglenook is of obscure origin, though etymologists associate ingle with the Gaelic aingel meaning "fire." It entered English in the 1770s.] I seized his sleeve and drew him off a little into an inglenook where we could be less readily observed. - Sara Poole, The Borgia Betrayal, 2011 From the pile of wood, stacked at one side of the inglenook, he drew out a pair of bellows and began to blow new life into the ashes. - Marcia Willett, A Week in Winter, 2002 His kingdom is/ His inglenook-/ All this is his/ Who hath a book. - Wilbur D. Nesbit, A Book of Poems, 1906 |
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