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carrel🔊

(architecture, obsolete) A small closet or enclosure built against the inner side of a window of a monastery's cloister, to sit in for study.

(by extension) A cubicle or partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a library.

💬 Quotations
He then returned to his carrell for his own research.
Ah, the library. I booked like a madman for the Master’s Comp. Nine months, up in a study carrel on deck eight.

(obsolete) A type of fabric used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(obsolete) A square-headed arrow.

📑 Synonyms: quarrel
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