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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--alcove This week's theme: words with built-in definite articles. alcove (AL-kov) noun 1. A recess in a wall. 2. A small, secluded space connected to a room or in a garden. [From French alcôve, from Spanish alcoba, from Arabic al-qubba (the vault).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Fuller, Smith & Turner, one of London's last remaining brewers, said a wet summer and the introduction of a smoking ban had not dented profits, as drinkers stuck with ales and smokers huddled in outside alcoves. 'Pubs without smoking are much nicer places to be,' Chairman Michael Turner told a press conference." Alastair Sharp; Brewer Fuller Sees Through Haze of Smoking Ban; Reuters UK; Nov 23, 2007. X-Bonus I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT. -Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)

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