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alcove

/al-kohv/US // ˈæl koʊv //UK // (ˈælkəʊv) //

阁楼,凹槽,阁楼上,橱窗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.