alcôve

See also: alcove

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish alcoba or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese alcova, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic اَلْقُبَّة (al-qubba, “vault, chamber with vaulted roof”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.kov/

Noun

alcôve f (plural alcôves)

1. alcove

Further reading

• “alcôve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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