alcove
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See also: alcôve
English
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Etymology
[edit]From French alcôve, from Spanish alcoba or Portuguese alcova, from Arabic القُبَّة (al-qubba, “vault, chamber with vaulted roof”). Doublet of qubba.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈæl.kəʊv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]alcove (plural alcoves)
- (architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
- 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop[1], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 4:
- 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.
- A shady retreat.
- The house was situated in a leafy alcove.
- (countable) 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.
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[edit]small recessed area
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