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Definition of Niched
1. a. Placed in a niche.
Definition of Niched
1. Initialism. [ National Institute of Childcare and Education], a UK-based organisation working to improve standards in childcare and education through training courses and raising public awareness. ¹
2. Adjective. In a niche. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Niched
1. niche [v] - See also: niche
Lexicographical Neighbors of Niched
Literary usage of Niched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"and, moving the spleen of Swift's dearest friend, got himself niched in the Dunciad.
But the assailant lived to regret it more than the assailed, ..."
2. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"In certain monuments of the late XII century of the region of Cremona the niched
cornice underwent a striking and highly decorative development. ..."
3. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, Etc by Thomas Percy, Edward Walford (1887)
"niched, notched, cut. niched him of naye, nicked him (or cut him ? ... Folio,
niched, refused. Noole, gold coin, value 6s. 8d. Nobles, nobleness. ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"To north and east runs the niched wall in which, ... She walked on to look at
the niched wall, while Manisty and Eleanor parleyed with Aristodemo as to the ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... a grim niched barrier of whinstone sheltering it from the chaf- ings and
tumblings of the big blue German Ocean. Seaward St. Abb's Head, of whinstone, ..."
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