grotto

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They lived in the tiger grotto and were fed at the Art Deco-style Lion House, built for the original Fleishhacker Zoo by the Works Progress Administration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

Children would build grottos from the shells and pester passers-by for pennies for their efforts, with cries of "Pray remember the grotto!"

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2025

Mick Hodgson was a caretaker at Harwich Centre Pre-school in Essex, when he volunteered to help out in the grotto.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024

Highly theatrical, it saw the 35-year-old perform inside a mossy grotto, singing on top of a giant mechanical beetle and ascending a tree trunk in fairy wings.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

Marie-Laure puts the loaf in her knapsack, leaves the bakery, and winds toward the ramparts to Hubert Bazin’s grotto.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr