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Carrol

Carol \Car"ol\, Carrol \Car"rol\, n. [OF. carole a sort of circular space, or carol.] (Arch.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. The term carrel, of the same has largely superseded its use.

A bay window may thus be called a carol.
--Parker.

Carrol

Carrol \Car"rol\, n. (Arch.) See 4th Carol.

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carrol

n. (context architecture English) A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study.

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Carrol

Carroll is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Regina Carrol
  • Lou Carrol
  • Aurelio Valcárcel Carrol

Given name:

  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Carrol Chandler

Usage examples of "carrol".

His intention was to settle a matter that had been hanging fire since he and Sally Carrol had met in Asheville, North Carolina, in midsummer.

Almost immediately Sally Carrol thought of her as vaguely Scandinavian.

All the chairs had little lace squares where one's head should rest, the couch was just comfortable, the books looked as if they had been read--some--and Sally Carrol had an instantaneous vision of the battered old library at home, with her father's huge medical books, and the oil-paintings of her three great-uncles, and the old couch that had been mended up for forty-five years and was still luxurious to dream in.

Her conversation was so utterly devoid of personality that Sally Carrol, who came from a country where a certain amount of charm and assurance could be taken for granted in the women, was inclined to despise her.

The first day's impression of an egg had been confirmed--an egg with a cracked, veiny voice and such an ungracious dumpiness of carriage that Sally Carrol felt that if she once fell she would surely scramble.

She called Sally Carrol "Sally," and could not be persuaded that the double name was anything more than a tedious ridiculous nickname.

To Sally Carrol this shortening of her name was presenting her to the public half clothed.

They passed a little girl done up in gray wool until she resembled a small Teddy bear, and Sally Carrol could not resist a gasp of maternal appreciation.

That very night at the end of a vaudeville performance the orchestra played "Dixie" and Sally Carrol felt something stronger and more enduring than her tears and smiles of the day brim up inside her.

Sally Carrol felt a film of flakes melt quickly on her eyelashes, and Harry reached over a furry arm and drew down her complicated flannel cap.

Sally Carrol could still see her white breath in the darkness, and a dim row of pale faces over on the other side.

It really was Margery Lee, and she was just as Sally Carrol had known she would be, with a young, white brow, and wide welcoming eyes, and a hoop-skirt of some soft material that was quite comforting to rest on.

Up in her bedroom window Sally Carrol Happer rested her nineteen-year-old chin on a fifty-two-year-old sill and watched Clark Darrow's ancient Ford turn the corner.

Sally Carrol sighed voluminously and raised herself with profound inertia from the floor where she had been occupied in alternately destroyed parts of a green apple and painting paper dolls for her younger sister.

The Ford having been excited into a sort of restless resentful life Clark and Sally Carrol rolled and rattled down Valley Avenue into Jefferson Street, where the dust road became a pavement.