Growlery - Grandiloquent Word of the Day

Growlery [GRAU-luhr-ee]
(n.)
- A place to which to retreat, alone, when ill-humoured; a quiet sanctuary from the world.
- A place of refuge or retreat when one is out of sorts or in ill-humor.
- A man-cave or she-shed.

Charles Dicken coined this word for use in “Bleak House”
From “Growl” from Middle English “grollen” (to rumble, growl - early 15c.) from Old French “grouler” (to rumble)
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“-ery” a word-forming element making nouns meaning "place for" from Middle English “-erie” from Latin “-arius” (connected with).

Used in a sentence:
"When I am deceived or disappointed in the wind, and it’s Easterly, I take refuge here. The Growlery is the best used room in the house.”
-Charles Dickens “Bleak House” Chapter 8

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