All 8 Uses

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The Demolished Man
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Powell loped down a hall toward the v-phone alcove.†
Chpt 10 *
He stepped into the massage alcove and punched 'Glow-Salt.'†
Chpt 14
He stepped out of the alcove to ring Service.†
Chpt 14
There was a dull concussion and Reich was hurled to his face by the force of the explosion in the alcove.†
Chpt 14
He went back into the bathroom shut off the massage buffers and inspected the alcove wreckage.†
Chpt 14
The empty cartridge lay behind the alcove.†
Chpt 14
Halfway down the footway was a public v-phone alcove.†
Chpt 16
Still breathing heavily, he trotted to the lab library, snapped on the lights and went to the reference alcove.†
Chpt 16

Definitions:

(1) (alcove)
a recessed or secluded space -- such as in a room or garden

The alcove of a room is a smaller room attached to a larger room and separated by an arch or other architectural feature other than a door.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)