nichedadj.
/niːʃt/, /nɪtʃt/, U.S. /nɪtʃt/, /niʃt/ Having a niche or niches; contained in a niche; constructed as a niche.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Column Column Nich'd, is that whose Shaft enters, with half its Diameter, into a Wall.
1771 T. Nugent tr. B. Cellini Life I. 450 My string of long slips, which I wanted to get about one of the nitched battlements.
1829 T. Campbell in New Monthly Mag. 26 284 Niched statues breathing golden air.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Daisy in Maud & Other Poems 139 Those niched shapes of noble mould.
1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iv. iv. 262 The niched marker on a whist tablet slips round with the pressure of your thumb.
1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe ii. 23 The niched recesses of the apse are repeated in a number of Milanese churches.
1991 Jrnl. Hist. of Collections 3 258 (caption) The large niched recess to the west..has since been closed off and the cast of the frieze of the Parthenon is for that reason now discontinued across the bay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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