Definitions
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- adjective sometimes in combination Having (a specified type or number of)
alcoves
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Examples
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The 3,600-square-foot home has a great room with stone floors, an oversized fireplace and alcoved ceilings.
Ann Brenoff: Cool Pads: Jesse James, the Man America Loves to Hate, Lists His Home 2010
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The 3,600-square-foot home has a great room with stone floors, an oversized fireplace and alcoved ceilings.
Ann Brenoff: Hot Pads: Jesse James, the Man America Loves to Hate, Lists His Home 2010
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The 3,600-square-foot home has a great room with stone floors, an oversized fireplace and alcoved ceilings.
Ann Brenoff: Hot Pads: Jesse James, the Man America Loves to Hate, Lists His Home 2010
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But he was turning to the right and some alcoved spaces, where there were containers and cases.
Dark Piper Norton, Andre 1968
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These were the figures most distinct to his imagination as he crept after supper into the library, and sat down at the alcoved window looking upon a side street.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous
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Her sigh, "How provoking!" reached the alcoved auditor.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous
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She led him through the adjoining room and to the curtained doorway of a library -- long, alcoved, shelved with books, and furnished with heavy leather chairs.
The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Bannister Merwin
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Susan always thought of second - floor alcoved bedrooms as filled with the pungent fumes of Miss
Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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There she knelt on a praying chair before a small alcoved altar with tall wax tapers, and remained a long while.
The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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A broad shaft of morning light poured through the open doorway in the ceiling of the room which was about thirty feet square, or roughly square, being irregular in shape, one side curving outward, another being indented by what might have been the corner of another building jutting into it, another alcoved by three sides of an octagon, while the fourth was serpentine in contour.
Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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