car|rell

car|rell
car|rel or car|rell «KAR uhl», noun.
a small enclosed place for individual study in a library, usually containing a desk and bookshelves: »

Collegians study hard…in the 500 carrells of the Firestone Library at Princeton (Newsweek).

[variant of carol (in the sense of Medieval Latin carola circular enclosure, a monk's study)]

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