Usually means: Small recessed sections of rooms.
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  1. alcoves: Merriam-Webster
  2. alcoves: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. alcoves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. alcoves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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(Note: See alcove as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alcove)

noun:  (architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
noun:  A shady retreat.
noun:  (countable) 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.
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