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Drawing of an alcove.
Alcove in sandstone, near Moab, Utah.
Alcove (through the Spanish, alcoba, from the Arabic, al-, the, and qubbah,(القبة) a vault) is an architectural term for a recess in a room, usually screened off by pillars, balustrades or drapery.
Usage : Though their apartment lacked a dining room, an alcove adjacent to the living room made for an adequate ambience for dinner.
In geography and geology, the term Alcove is used for a wind-eroded depression in the side of a cliff of a homogenous rock type, famous from sandstones of the Colorado Plateau like the Navajo Sandstone.[1]
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