(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
(2) Step by selfish step we have arrived at the latest item causing outrage: a bed of metal spikes inside an alcove of a fancy new development on Southwark Bridge Road in London.
(3) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
(4) Desai has identified a hospital back entrance that the patient will not recognise and organised a screened alcove to be equipped like a sitting room for waiting.
(5) KCBS’s reporter witnessed water pouring from the church ceiling above the outside alcoves from a height of about 30ft.
(6) Writers hid in alcoves as conversing cleaners and security guards walked past inches away.
(7) Legend has it that the three brothers who built this castle were told to sacrifice one of their wives, and the chosen wife was bricked into an alcove, which still remains.
(8) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
(9) He had an alcove in his dressing room that had a curtain over it and he would take you behind the curtain".
(10) There were no staff around in the room, just the girls in there and one or two other people so I suppose the privacy we got was from the curtain in the alcove but, I have no doubt that he went and told everybody else what he did afterwards".
(11) Top tip: After walking the main looped trail, stretch your legs another half a mile down to the Alcove House.
(12) Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed – Proverbs 19:17 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me – Matthew 25:35 St Mary’s cathedral, home of the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco , has been scrambling to explain itself after local media revealed that it had installed water sprinklers above its doorways that were dousing homeless people seeking shelter in the alcoves there.
(13) As the helicopter drones droned above them, Langdon and Sienna cowered in the secret alcove of the Pitti Palace.
(14) Guided tours climb ladders and crawl through tunnels to Cliff Palace and Balcony House, constructed in stone alcoves high above the canyon floor.
(15) Grafted animals showed an early, however, transient amelioration of behavioral deficits in a T-maze alternation task and they performed with a long-lasting improvement in the alcove-test.
(16) Rats were trained in three different avoidance tasks (uphill, step-down and alcove) and tested 24 h later.
(17) When the group gathered around a 13th-century Anatolian alcove, one man asked: “Is that Sunni?” “They didn’t have Sunnis and Shias back then,” responded an elderly woman.
(18) Indeed during the first few years of my life, one of those Perrot paintings, now in the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, was the sole representative of art in my little world, hung above the alcove in the sitting-room where I used to hide during Doctor Who .
(19) The wide street, lined on each side with garage-like concrete alcoves that serve for shops, was strewn with rubbish and, the Jocks discovered, eight separate IEDs.
(20) In a second small-box passive avoidance experiment, i.e., the alcove-avoidance task, opposite results were attained: Subreinforcing stimulation attenuated learning whereas neither suprathreshold stimulated animals nor control animals showed impairment of learning.
Grotto
Definition:
(n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
Example Sentences:
(1) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(2) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
(3) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(4) Closer Genocider sounds like Suicide in a Silver Machine and pivots on a simulated two-chord loop or locked groove that goes on seemingly forever, or at least until that stained glass window-lined grotto of unconventional thought starts appearing in your mind's eye.
(5) Don't expect sandy beaches, do expect iridescent turquoise seas (especially in the Blue Grotto sea cave), fresh seafood, and a laid-back, unhurried lifestyle that would seduce even the nerviest banker into blissful lethargy.
(6) Top tip: The 13-mile Eagle Creek trail isn’t for the faint of heart as it sometimes skirts the edge of sheer cliffs, but the rewards are well worth the scares: at Punchbowl Falls, water spills 30 metres down into a blue-green grotto, and at Tunnel Falls the trail passes through a tunnel behind a spectacular sheet of falling water.
(7) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
(8) Gary McNair: War on Christmas Anyone who has ever felt like saying “Bah, humbug!” to the John Lewis ad will find a kindred spirit in Gary McNair, playing a Santa working in a down-at-heel Christmas grotto who decides to investigate what Christmas means if you are poor.
(9) You expect to stumble into an artist's grotto, cluttered with the debris of a creative genius at work.
(10) The mechansim of action of climatotherapy in the grotto and the indication of treatment are discussed.
(11) Father Christmas in his grotto at Harrods department store, Knightsbridge, London.
(12) His optimism is shared in Dunhuang, a city of ancient Buddhist grottoes and ultramodern solar farms where China's first 10MW demonstration photovoltaic plant waits to be connected to the state grid.
(13) You can tell that Julian Cope might be a fan, that reviewers are going to be drawing comparisons with Ash Ra Tempel, and that they would make people come away from their concerts saying things like: "My head is throbbing like a stained glass window-lined grotto of unconventional thought and atavistic proto-religious impulses ."
(14) O’Francese (+39 329 006 6424) on the main beach is the only bar and it also rents whitewashed grottos that were once fishermen’s dwellings (doubles from €120 half-board).
(15) After a day sunbathing, stroll along the picturesque ancient Roman harbour made of colourful fishermen dwellings and prehistoric grottos turned into studios, and where evening drinks are served on rooftops.
(16) In the "Beke" grotto of Jósvafö 222 patients with an obstructive syndrome (respiratory blast value below 70) wer examined for the therapeutic results of therapy, with treatment made for five hours a day and for an overall period of three weeks.
(17) It’s a labyrinth of orange-purple sea grottos, talcum powder-like beaches, white granite rocks and pirates caves where scuba divers still search for hidden treasures.
(18) For something a little more sedate, the Walpole Bay is hosting two seaside-themed vintage film nights ( 16 September and 14 October) arranged by the Friends of the Shell Grotto, including Magical Margate (circa 1919) and The Belle of Kent (1958).
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of Ponza’s many beautiful grottoes.
(20) Way to go Getting there Benmo (0845 250 8119, benmo.com ) offers a 10-day package that includes the Sunday market in Kashgar, Turfan oasis and Buddhist Grottoes at Dunhuang, Xian and Beijing departing from Heathrow 25 February, 2010 from £1695pp, including all flights, with tailor-made tours available on earlier dates.