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Place for a bookcase
Answer for the clue "Place for a bookcase ", 6 letters:
alcove
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alcove \Al"cove\ (?; 277), n. [F. alc[^o]ve, Sp. or Pg. alcoba, from Ar. al-quobbah arch, vault, tent.] (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. ...
Usage examples of alcove.
I observed with pleasure that the clock in the alcove had an alarum, for I was beginning, in spite of love, to be easily influenced by the power of sleep.
He tried to choke it back, but the muffled croak was enough to bring Alec from his alcove.
Chapter 46 Julia finally slept, and Azar left Lavinnia to watch over her so that she could go down to the alcove in the peristyle and pray in solitude.
The huge old-fashioned, four-posted bed, overhung by a baldachin of carved wood with satin linings, occupied a deep alcove.
In alcoves beflowered girls offered synthetic love to wheezing old men, and elsewhere others lay stupefied by dream-powders.
Carved in this rock were two sets of alcoves: a high series containing the biogas burners, which provided the cells with what light and warmth they enjoyed, and, set twice as frequent, a lower series containing lengths of chain, firmly stapled into place.
The small room where X had suggested that Birr learn the game was actually an alcove near a small stage which the club sometimes used for entertainment purposes.
These were closed and bolted, and she lay with hands outstretched in the alcove which they formed.
More than many of the girls had I squirmed in the alcoves, sometimes chained, writhing under the touch of masters, whimpering and crying out the submission I could not help but yield.
The invisible Conger, avoiding crackpot writers and serving robots, approached the alcove.
The table having been laid in front of the alcove, supper was served, and we all did honour to it.
Once in the system, he crawled through the maze of ductwork, until he came at last to the grille overlooking the room with the alcove and the rows of indentations on the alcove walls.
But Fett was already conscious of what was happening there: Some of the black-uniformed mercenaries had stepped forward from the alcoves and adjoining corridors where they had first appeared.
On instinct, she swung towards it, almost collided with one of the servers - who cursed her flightily, thinking her after all a male - and got between the tables into an alcove.
The most interesting portion of this tale deals with the free woman who had been left, stripped, bound and gagged, in the alcove.