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  • noun Plural form of snuggery.

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Examples

  • It is the Imperial and Diplomatic health resort, and the people attached to the Court and the Diplomatic Corps have snuggeries scattered all about the table-land of Petropolis, and form a pleasant little society.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Here was a nice man to be initiated into the comfortable arcana of ecclesiastical snuggeries; one who doubted the integrity of parsons, and probably disbelieved the Trinity!

    The Warden 2004

  • Upon arriving, it was discovered that some of the Jersey Brigade had taken possession of our log snuggeries, and that their officers had established their heels upon the mantels in our officers 'quarters, and were smoking the pipes of comfort and complacency, as though they had not a trouble in the world, and never expected to have.

    The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War Dudley Landon Vaill

  • It is the Imperial and Diplomatic health resort, and the people attached to the Court and the Diplomatic Corps have snuggeries scattered all about the table-land of Petropolis, and form a pleasant little society.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • "I could hide that chap in one of my snuggeries; but what about the winter time?"

    The New Forest Spy George Manville Fenn 1870

  • I had the curiosity to enter one of these little snuggeries, which was unoccupied.

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

  • When we came back to the house, and after taking coffee in the drawing room, Miss S. took me over the interior, a most delightful place, full of all sorts of out-of-the-way snuggeries, and comfortable corners, and poetic irregularities.

    Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • Here was a nice man to be initiated into the comfortable arcana of ecclesiastical snuggeries; one who doubted the integrity of parsons, and probably disbelieved the Trinity!

    The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848

  • -- Much didst thou do to beautify chimney-tops, much to adorn the snuggeries where thou didst dwell.

    Paul Clifford — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • -- Much didst thou do to beautify chimney-tops, much to adorn the snuggeries where thou didst dwell.

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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