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Definition of Niches
1. niche [v] - See also: niche
Lexicographical Neighbors of Niches
Literary usage of Niches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christian Archaeology by Charles Wesley Bennett (1888)
"same form or having alternating rectangular and semicircular niches.' Sometimes these
simple rotunda interiors were further enriched by columns placed in ..."
2. Papers of the British School at Rome by British School at Rome (1904)
"the round niches on each side are placed closer to the rectangular niche in the
background, which agrees better with the elevation. ..."
3. The Antiquarian (1871)
"Each of the longer sides was pierced with four niches, the shorter with two.
These niches seem not to have come down to the ground to form kneeling recesses ..."
4. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"The motive seems to have spread rapidly, for niches much like those of Agliate
... In the baptistery of Agliate there was originally a cornice of niches ..."
5. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1807)
"... in other niches, a man with a wooden leg, and a wo-- man with her arm in a
sling: over the niches are festoons, and between the last mentioned figures ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The simple structure might be enriched by a number of small chapels or niches,
or surrounded by a corridor; a cupola or dome necessarily covered it. ..."
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