All 6 Uses of
niche
in
The Da Vinci Code
- The church's entryway was a recessed stone niche inside which stood a large wooden door.†
Chpt 83-84
- Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†
Chpt 97-98
- Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.†
Chpt 97-98 *
- He began with the clawed feet beneath the sarcophagus, moved upward past Newton, past his books on science, past the two boys with their mathematical scroll, up the face of the pyramid to the giant orb with its constellations, and finally up to the niche's star-filled canopy.†
Chpt 97-98
- The sarcophagus was recessed in a niche, obscured from this oblique angle.†
Chpt 97-98
- As they approached the niche, Langdon felt a slow sinking sensation.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(niche) a smaller market within a larger market -- such as the market for scissors designed for people who are left-handed
or:
a role for which someone is especially well-suited
or:
a shallow recess, cranny or crevice