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growlery en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Growlery.
Tussy wrote to Lizzy, knowing that Engels would read her the letters in his growlery – as he described his study-sitting room – presided over by the stuffed Right Honourable in his glass case.
2014, Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life, →ISBN:I dare say you have never heard of a growlery. It's a funny word, but it is a very useful, helpful sort of a place.
1916, Our Young People, page 30:'Bearing up, I suppose, Teddy said, although I didn't actually see her. We're at war then? 'I'm afraid so. Come into the growlery, Ted, and have a drink with me.
2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 103:
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