Alcoves is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALCOVES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ALCOVE, a vaulted or arched recess in a room-wall, formerly esp. one for a bed
• a recess in the wall of a room or garden.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a recessed section of a room

Words related to ALCOVES

alcove11

How to use ALCOVES in a sentence

• The floor is of mosaic in elegant designs, and two alcoves are separated from the apartment by rich hangings of deep green plush, which in certain lights has a shimmer of silver.
• Silently the father and daughter walked up and down the room, looking into the alcoves.
• There seemed to have been grass paths here and there, and in one or two corners there were alcoves of evergreen with stone seats or tall moss-covered flower urns in them.
• As she came near the second of these alcoves she stopped skipping.
• The white figures melted and warmed into masses and alcoves, and innumerable volumes looked affectionately at me.
• I am a student only of ball rooms, bar rooms, streets, and alcoves.
• Being overtaken by a shower in Kensington Gardens, I sought shelter in one of the alcoves near the palace.
• It was a rambling structure of unexpected turns and endless alcoves stored with curios, art treasures, and trophies of travel.
• The facts are all found scattered among the various public documents which repose in the alcoves of our National Library.
• Alcoves containing tables and chairs ranged around.
• Their room contained two alcoves, or bedrooms, at the end opposite the door.
• These alcoves were made by a simple partition that separated one side from the other, but left the bedrooms open to the rest of the room.
• Against the walls in the alcoves stood two light iron bedsteads, with a single mattress on each, carefully folded back during the day, and made up only after tattoo.
• Round the edge of the huge room, beneath the gallery, were a number of little alcoves framed in fretted Moorish arches of white-enamelled wood.
• It was a huge white place, with a number of little alcoves and a large band.
• The others followed more slowly, stepping gently in the presence of Death, past the little lamps, hardly bigger than fireflies, which flickered feebly in their alcoves.
• The maze of passages and alcoves, with secret and bewildering doors, checked and retarded his progress.
• Toward the front, on either side, in alcoves, partitioned off in part from the remainder of the room, were opium couches, with pipes and lamps ready for use.
• On one side of the central partition were dozens of little drawers, on the other as many slides and pigeon-holes and alcoves.
• These are varied by niches, alcoves, and the customary appearances of desolated magnificence.
• Here her unquiet face was frequently turned, from her first early entrance into the gallery, till sunset, when she would sit in one of the alcoves in hot weather.
• White figures reclined in alcoves, round the walls.
• The indefatigable scholar was no less capable in the fields and on the high road than in alcoves and the Search Room.
• Book shelves projected from each side toward the middle, forming alcoves.
• Seated in one of these alcoves, you could be seen only by persons who should chance to pass.
• Many had little alcoves and shelves, dug out by the patient hands of the soldiers, and these niches contained their most precious belongings.
• The library-room is a large, airy, well-lighted apartment, with a series of artistic alcoves ranged about two of its sides.
• Around the sides of this room were built two tiers of alcoves capable of holding about one hundred thousand books.
• The shelves are ranged in alcoves extending around the sides of the three main halls and subdivided into sections of six shelves each, each section being designated by a numeral.
• The alcoves have no distinguishing mark, the books being arranged therein by subjects which the distributing librarian is expected to carry in his mind.
• The ceiling above is the skylight of the roof, and the alcoves, filled with the wealth of learning of all ages and peoples, rise on either hand quite to the ceiling.
• Books fly from counter to alcoves and return, messenger-boys dart hither and thither, the fair patrons thumb the catalogues and chatter in sad defiance of the rules.
• Common gratitude, it might seem, would deter persons admitted to the privileges of its alcoves from injuring its property.

Similar words containing ALCOVE without suffix s

alcove11 alcoved13

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