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cove

[kohv] / koʊv /


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It marked the second death this summer at Crescent Bay Beach, a popular quarter-mile cove in Laguna Beach that drawsin bodysurfers and divers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

But south of the tunnel, Highway 1 still parallels a stretch of towering cliffs overlooking a sheltered cove.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

The ceiling cove, once green, has been returned to its original white color.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

There have been a number of similar rockfalls at the same cove, including a major landslip earlier this year, which occurred after days of heavy rainfall.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024

“I was down in the first cove by the valley when they fired the rockets,” said Frank.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Highlights include an entry with a sweeping staircase, living room under coved ceilings, formal dining room, office and movie theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2020

Though it is state-of-the-art, the gallery looks splendidly 19th-century, with a coved ceiling and an overhead window that lets daylight in.

From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014

All are put to good use, as are the coved recesses that allow for overlapping scenes.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2012

This led by the late 1960s to works known as light encasements, squares of monochrome plastic with neon lights embedded along the edges, intended to be installed in white rooms with coved corners.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2012

Mr Freeman described it as "a coved roof, such as we are used to in woodwork in this part of England, only with cells cut in it for the clerestory windows."

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer

Among those who left their mark are a group believed to have worked on the coving in 1968 and the earliest, a plasterer, T Harwood whose signature is dated 1843.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

This day of proceedings was characterized by those coving the trial as tense, as LaPierre repeatedly "tried to insert justifications for expenditures which Sheehan elicited in his questions."

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2021

I like to think the old face is still underneath like a piece of buried Victorian coving, snarling and bantering to itself behind the immobile corporate façade.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

A broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple molded cornice, and one notes the much used double belt formed by two projecting courses of brick at the second-floor level.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

As at Hope Lodge a broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple cornice.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins




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