Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To furnish (something) with an alcove or to form an alcovelike recess.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA small recessed area set off from a larger room. · A shady retreat. · The geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded.
From French alcôve, from Spanish alcoba or Portuguese alcova, from Arabic القُبَّة (al-qubba, “vault, chamber with vaulted roof”). Doublet of qubba.
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