2. Verb. (third-person singular of recess) ¹
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Definition of Recesses
1. recess [v] - See also: recess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recesses
Literary usage of Recesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theory and Practice of Teaching: Or, The Motives Amd Methods of Good School by David Perkins Page (1867)
"recesses.—How often? ments and instruction during the progress of a class ...
recesses. In speaking of the arrangements of a school, the sub ject of ..."
2. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"recesses under the parapet must be ceiled. If planking or other similar material
is available, time and trouble may be saved by laying the ceiling for the ..."
3. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"A nauseous curiosity made them rummage all the dressing-rooms, all the recesses.
Returned convicts thrust their arms into the beds in which princesses had ..."
4. American Journal of Education (1862)
"The recesses in the front and rear end walls each measure twenty-one and
five-twelfths feet in width, and those in the two side walls twenty-three feet in ..."
5. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"The recesses in the faces of the four exterior walls aforesaid are located in
the center of the length of each wall, and reach the whole hight of said walls ..."
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