Citations:carrel

English citations of carrel

• 1913, Herbert Thurston, “Libraries”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:

  It was in the cloister, in which little alcoves called "carrels" were fitted up, securing a certain amount of privacy for each student, that the literary work of the house, whether in reading or transcribing, was mainly done.

• 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN:

  I booked like a madman for the Master’s Comp. Nine months, up in a study carrel on deck eight.

• 2007 October 15, Steve Dodson, “IN THE WOODS ARE ORIOLES”, in languagehat‎^[1]:

  […] to separate my office from the vestibule area of the house and give it the feel (so pleasant to this habitué of university libraries) of a private carrel, […]