alcove 的定义
- a recess or small room adjacent to or opening out of a room: a dining alcove.
- a recess in a room for a bed, bookcases, or the like.
- any recessed space, as a bower in a garden.
alcove 近义词
nook, secluded spot
更多alcove例句
- Favorite with the yacht set, the oldest coastal town founded by Croats, Sibernik, is a delightful spot built in an alcove where river meets sea.
- The room had floor-to-ceiling windows, and Rothko agreed to paint a triptych to fill an alcove on the room’s west wall, and two more paintings to face them from the east.
- In the alcove beyond the check-in desk, Sanchez and Diaz installed their gurney along a vacant stretch of beige hallway.
- As well as embedding objects in them, some had small, undecorated alcoves just big enough for a single person to crouch within.
- Portraits of the Rolling Stones and other easily recognizable stars populate the small, alcove-like room straight ahead.
- Gwynne walked about the large old-fashioned room with its bow-window, and alcove for the bed.
- In a special alcove was a large number of priceless Fourteenth and Sixteenth Century editions.
- In the shadow of an alcove seat Maxwell stood with a small black envelope in his hand.
- Cheap, but pretty, curtains hung before the windows and about the alcove where the bed was.
- They stepped aside into an alcove set with card-tables, and Susannah gazed away from her companion and down the crowded ballroom.