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(architecture) A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. / Hence, a partially partitioned space for studying or reading, often in a library.

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carrel

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Source Word

carrel

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkæɹəl/

Noun

(architecture) A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. / Hence, a partially partitioned space for studying or reading, often in a library.

Japanese Meaning

図書館などで勉強や読書をするために設けられた、窓際にある小さな個室や仕切られた空間

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She reserved a quiet carrel by the library window to prepare for her exams.

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彼女は試験の準備のために図書館の窓際にある静かな学習用の小さな個室を予約した。

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(architecture) A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study.

Carol, or Carrel. A little pew, or closet, in a cloister, to sit and read in. They were common in greater monasteries, as Duram, Gloucester, Kirkham in Yorkshire, &c.; and had their name from the carols, or sentences inscribed on the walls about them, which often were couplets in rhyme. [Carola, Low Latin.]

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