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pigeonhole

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pigeonhole
a hole or recess in a dovecote for pigeons to nest in
pigeonhole
1. One of a series of small compartments.
2. A seat in the top row of a gallery or in the uppermost gallery in a theater.
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This man, whose clay was so plastic that he could live in any number of pigeonholes of human existence, she thought wilful and most obstinate because she could not shape him to live in her pigeonhole, which was the only one she knew.
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Hale said he would preserve it as a literary curiosity, and shoved it away in a pigeonhole.
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I docket it neatly at the secretaire, JONES, and I put it into pigeonhole J.
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