snuggery

plural snuggeries

1. uncommonA comfortable room or dwelling.

   He moves across ward, and goes out on door of corridor) TOURNOUR Well, you're not getting back to your snuggery, my oul' cod.

   1916, Padraic Colum, Three Plays

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   The accustomed coach life began again, now, and by midnight it almost seemed as if we never had been out of our snuggery among the mail sacks at all.

   1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It

   She would go home to her own snuggery, with Linnet to share it, with a relieved mind if John Holmes might be taken into a family.

   1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence

   A purchaser for one of those aforesaid treatises on farriery just then coming in, dislodged us; so, bidding Samuel good-bye--he and Narcissus already arranging for 'a night'--we obeyed a mutual instinct, and presently found ourselves in the snuggery of a quaint tavern, which was often to figure hereafter in our sentimental history, though probably little in these particular chapters of it.

   1895, Richard Le Gallienne, The Book-Bills of Narcissus

   Bent was with Lettie when Cotherstone got home, and Cotherstone presently got the two of them into a little snuggery which he kept sacred to himself as a rule.

   1921, Joseph Smith Fletcher, The Borough Treasurer

   As so often happens in the retelling of grand and not-so-grand amours alike, her re-creation of the affair is trite and teeny-boppery, an effect magnified by her inclusion of scrapbook snapshots — her puffy first boyfriend (“giving up my virginity was special”); a 1972 wedding snap of “Sheryl and Ronnie” (they are still married); a shot of the Upper East Side snuggery where she and Bernie hooked up; and a collage of the “iconic” lipstick building where she and Bernie first met.

   2009 September 27, Liesl Schillinger, “Probing the Charred Ruins of Romance”, in New York Times