Crossword clues for alcove
alcove
- Shelter from a Catholic overwhelmed by pointlessness?
- Nook in which a copperhead is enamoured?
- Bay on American lake a secluded area once
- A Liberal by coastal area in recess
- Cozy corner
- Breakfast area
- Statue setting
- Architectural recess
- Breakfast nook, e.g
- Breakfast spot
- Small dining area
- Library recess
- Dining spot
- Room adjunct
- Recess or small room
- Opening off a larger room
- Tiny dining spot
- Small opening — a clove (anag)
- Secluded museum area
- Recessed part of a room
- Recess in a house
- Quiet spot to read
- Library nook
- Garden bower, e.g
- Garden bower
- Dining nook
- Dinette, for example
- Dinette set's spot, perhaps
- Bookcase place, perhaps
- Secluded spot
- Bookcase site
- Recessed area
- Breakfast place?
- Nook for reading, perhaps
- Bay
- Library feature
- Quiet spot to sit
- Garden bower, e.g.
- Low-traffic spot
- Dinette set spot
- Reading site
- Dinette spot
- Place for a bookcase
- Library spot
- What a Pullman kitchen is built into
- Place for a bust
- A small recess opening off a larger room
- Niche
- Room recess
- Recessed space
- Dining area, perhaps
- Statue spot
- One caught in passion covered spot
- Wall recess
- Small space where Capone stood at bay
- Small recess in a room
- Small opening - a clove
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.
--Cowper.-
Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.
The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove.
--Falconer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "vaulted recess," from French alcôve (17c.), from Spanish alcoba, from Arabic al-qobbah "the vaulted chamber," from Semitic base q-b-b "to be bent, crooked, vaulted."
Wiktionary
n. A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
WordNet
n. a small recess opening off a larger room [syn: bay]
Wikipedia
Alcove ( or ; through , from , meaning al-qubbah, "the vault") is an architectural term for a recess in a room, usually screened off by pillars, balustrades or drapery.
In geography and geology, alcove is used for a wind- eroded depression in the side of a cliff of a homogenous rock type, famous from sandstones of the Colorado Plateau like the Navajo Sandstone.
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.