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Alcove
//ˈæl.kəʊv// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
"It was very different from such bookstores as he had been accustomed to patronize. Two stories of the old house had been thrown into one: the lower space was divided into little alcoves; above, a gallery ran round the wall, which carried books to the ceiling."
- 2 a small recess opening off a larger room wordnet
- 3 A shady retreat.
"The house was situated in a leafy alcove."
- 4 The geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded. countable
Etymology
From French alcôve, from Spanish alcoba or Portuguese alcova, from Arabic القُبَّة (al-qubba, “vault, chamber with vaulted roof”). Doublet of qubba.
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