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- adjective resembling a
cellar
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Examples
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Our table was secluded, in one of the cellarlike annex rooms.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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You happen to notice any cellarlike locations around here?
Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997
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Pueblo Bonito, on the edge of a long, cellarlike excavation that had been the Hyde Expedition's storeroom for wool and Navaho blankets.
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Yet, an hour later, when the big man had told him of a string of fish tied down in the branch, of a little cellarlike contrivance by the spring which contained honeycomb and some cold corn-pone, the two men sat at supper like brothers.
Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878
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In the basement was Byron's bath, -- a dark and cold and cellarlike hole, which it must have required good courage to plunge into; in this region, too, or near it, was the chapel, which Colonel Wildman has decorously fitted up, and where service is now regularly performed, but which was used as a dog's kennel in Byron's time.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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In the basement was Byron's bath, -- a dark and cold and cellarlike hole, which it must have required good courage to plunge into; in this region, too, or near it, was the chapel, which Colonel Wildman has decorously fitted up, and where service is now regularly performed, but which was used as a dog's kennel in Byron's time.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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The below-street location and the wooden rafters provides a cellarlike feel.
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The below-street location and the wooden rafters provides a cellarlike feel.
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"It's hard to imagine six guys who have been hunting all day going to a winery, but we do," he said, glass in hand in the cellarlike tasting room of the Torre di Pietra winery.
Gazette.com : 2008
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