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noun

Alcove n.

(Arch.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. "The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove."

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Etymology of 'Alcove'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alcove" Quotes from Famous Books

... dressing-room, which overlooked the quadrangle, there was a small alcove which had been converted into a storeroom for the array of trunks and dress boxes that Lady O'Moy had brought from England. A door opening directly from her dressing room communicated with this alcove, ...

— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini

... black robes. While he was there, some rice-beer was brewed. On being given some of it to drink, he was very joyful, and then danced. Then, as he went out-of-doors, he re-entered the house with a piece of hard dung in his mouth, and put it in the alcove. As the master of the house became angry and beat him, he, being a large crow, flew out of the window, making the sound "K[a]! k[a]!" For this reason, even crows are creatures to be dreaded. Be very careful!—(Translated literally. Told ...

— Aino Folk-Tales • Basil Hall Chamberlain

... Maddox party eventually asked her to have an ice. 'Come and sit in this alcove place, and I'll ...

— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin

... dispersed, his four lawful Mohammedan wives, and many concubines, were gazing furtively down from behind their haiks. There was a fountain in the middle of the patio, and at the farther end of it, within an alcove that opened out of a horseshoe arch, beneath ceilings hung with stalactites, against walls covered with silken haities, and on Rabat rugs of many colours, sat Ben Aboo and ...

— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine

... alcove at the head of the stairs threw a dim light down the passage which led off the first-floor landing, but Musard felt for the electric switch and pressed it. The light flooded an empty corridor, with the door of the room nearest to him gaping ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

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