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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
carrel /ˈkar(ə)l/

▶noun

1 a small cubicle with a desk for the use of a reader in a library.

2 historical a small enclosure or study in a cloister.

– origin C16: appar. rel. to carol in the old sense ‘ring’.

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