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pigeonhole Noun a small compartment, such as in a bureau, for filing papers Verb [-holing, -holed] 1. to classify or categorize 2. to put aside
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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. Hale said he would preserve it as a literary curiosity, and shoved it away in a pigeonhole. I docket it neatly at the secretaire, JONES, and I put it into pigeonhole J. |
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