The word 'alcove' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a small enclosure or a sheltered area or corner, usually found in homes or gardens. Example sentence: The alcove in our lounge provided us a perfect spot to relax.
Mr Rubin placed the bed in a perfectly proportioned alcove, with only a stone bust of Mademoiselle Guimard, chin up and showing her long neck, on a pedestal on the wall behind it.Similarly, at least seven dealers brought works by Lucio Fontana, a 20th century Italian Modernist who has become enormously fashionable in America.
Until the hero, Michel, who is a survivor of the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, takes out a bundle of fake passports and foreign currency from a secret alcove in the bathroom and goes to work.Mischa Hiller's debut, "Sabra Zoo", a chilling rites-of-passage novel set in Beirut in 1982 during the killings in the camps, was highly praised.
Philippe Redom, a 56-year-old rough sleeper and former chef, prefers to remain in his alcove outside an office block.
IT IS midnight at the Playboy mansion and Elon Musk is in the cigar alcove with a couple of friends, holding forth.
He had none at all for his youthful flirtation with Trotskyism, over coffees and egg sandwiches, in gloomy Alcove 1 at City College in New York; Trotskyism had taught him to think and theorise, and as a bonus it had drawn him to meet, and fall in love with, the slim and brilliant Gertrude Himmelfarb.
An interior room with shelving and a tokonoma (alcove) for the display of a hanging scroll of painting or calligraphy continued to be the primary showroom for fine arts, although fusuma and byōbu decorated with large-scale paintings could be found throughout the structure.
The reception rooms provide more scope for decoration than the others, for one end of the room is occupied by a tokonoma, an alcove with a canopy above it supported by a pillar of fine or uncommon wood, in which is hung the picture or set of pictures that, with the flower arrangement that usually accompanies it, is the only ornament.
The room is usually about 3 m (9 feet) square or smaller; at one end there is an alcove, called the tokonoma, in which is displayed a hanging scroll, a flower arrangement, or both.
In Japan they are customarily displayed in an alcove or on small tables in a living room and later returned to their outdoor bonsai stands.
The placement of objects in the tokonoma, an alcove for the display of art, and the construction of the garden are considered from the eye level of a person seated on a tatami.
In plays derived from puppet dramas the gidayū musicians, called here the chobo, are placed on their traditional platform offstage left or behind a curtained alcove above the stage-left exit.
