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Definition of Cubbyholes
1. cubbyhole [n] - See also: cubbyhole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cubbyholes
Literary usage of Cubbyholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of King Solomon by Professor Solomon (2005)
"The walls of the Tower were lined with cubbyholes—thousands of them; and these were
... A spiral staircase provided access to the tiers of cubbyholes. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"At the last moment it is remembered that the house must be drained, and plumbing
specifications are made to fill in the cubbyholes. ..."
3. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"What with my wife, and babies, and lodgers, and the various cubbyholes into which
I had fitted them, my mind's eye ..."
4. The Immigrant Jew in America by National Liberal Immigration League, Edmund Janes James, Walter Scott Andrews, Oscar R. Flynn, J. R. Paulding, Charlotte Kimball Patton (1907)
"When homes are cubbyholes and mothers incompetent, he seeks diversion elsewhere.
Russian Jewish women have been instructed by their religion to care for ..."
5. Vagabonding Through Changing Germany by Harry Alverson Franck (1920)
"With open-work wheels, stubby little cars stenciled "Posen," "Essen," "Breslau,"
"Brussel," and the like, a half-dozen employees perched in the cubbyholes ..."
6. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"... time-honored rallying ground of the players—and the dressing-rooms are bare
and beggarly little cubbyholes, ill-lighted, damp, and foul- smelling. ..."
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