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▪ I. † ˈcarrel1 Obs.
Also carele.
A fabric mentioned in the 16th and 17th c.
1570Bk. of Drapery in Beck Draper's Dict. (1882) Carrells, Currelles, [mentioned with bays, fustians, and mockadoes, as] works mixed with silk, saietrie, or linen yarn. 1611Bk. of Rates (Jam.) Carrels, the peece, conteining 15 elnes, viij l. 1720Stow's Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) II. v. ix. 266/1 There were Carells, Fustians, Blankets.
▪ II. carrel2|ˈkærəl|
Also carrell.
a. Var. of carol n. 5 a. Obs. exc. Hist.
1593,1721[see carol n. 5 a]. 1890J. W. Clark Cambr. 274 They..retired thither for study after dinner, each sitting in his ‘carrell’ as it was called. 1893F. Madan Bks. in MS. 34 These carrels were fully open on one side of the cloister walk. 1911L. Weaver House & Equipment 39 In monastic houses reading was generally done in carrells, which were little bays in one or more of the Cloister walks.
b. A private cubicle provided in a library for use by a reader.
1919Library Jrnl. XLIV. 635 The provision of carrels for research workers. 1933Times 11 Dec. 19/5 Experiments in library administration, including the use of carrels and research rooms adjoining appropriate sections of the stack. 1957V. Nabokov Pnin iii. 76 He then returned to his carrell for his own research. 1960Medium ævum XXIX. 109 The study cubicles in the college library at Ampleforth are still called ‘carrels’. 1970Libr. Assoc. Rec. Apr. 161/2 In the Reference Library there are ten carrels and six semi⁓carrels, as well as open study-desks. |