Alcove
['ælkəʊv] or ['ælkov]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.
(n.) Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Recess.
Checker: Merle
Definition
n. a recess in a room: any recess: a shady retreat.
Inputed by Abner
Examples
- Instantly, silently, before my eyes, it vanished; so did the curtain and alcove: all that end of the garret became black as night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- After the lovers again joined me, we supped together in the alcove. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I found this vision of beauty in Perdita's alcove, in earnest conversation with its inmate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So plainly it shonethat it revealed the deep alcove with a portion of the tarnished scarlet curtain drawn over it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My bed stood in a little alcove; on turning my face to the wall, the room with its bewildering accompaniments became excluded. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was shady enough in the alcove, but I declare I quite dreaded the coming home again. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It issued from the alcove, and thither Fanny hastened, a note in her hand, which she delivered to fingers that hardly seemed to have nerve to hold it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Around the sides of the room, bounding this open space, run two tiers of gallery, divided, as is the main floor beneath them; into alcoves of liberal dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Sandra