1757 S. Boyce Poems 29 Where nature reigns, recess'd in calm content.

1792 A. Robertson Topogr. Surv. Great Road London to Bath & Bristol II. vi. 89 The entrance is by a neat Doric colonnade, between two recessed Venetian windows.

1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui viii, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 187 Lady Geraldine and Cecil Devereux..were in a recessed window.

1849 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. iii. 113 In many of the earlier examples the square profile of the recessed Norman arch is retained.

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iii. 90 Underneath this basilica is a little recessed chapel.

1931 T. S. Moore Poems 99 Here panels carved, there deep recessed shelves Where jars and phials crowd by tens and twelves.

1976 Gramophone Aug. 312/1 The recording is a little bottom heavy and both viola and cello have slightly greater prominence than the violins. At times, too, Végh himself is a trifle recessed.

1995 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 23 Sept. 18/3 (advt.) Retail Shop Premises in refurbished building...7ft window frontage with recessed door.

1956 Atlantic 198/6 Very few workers, even in Coventry, the capital of recessed cardom, had yet been forced to sell house and home.

1981 Christian Sci. Monitor 11 Feb. 6/2 Its latest nudge to money rates—at a time when the recessed domestic economy might be better served by lower interest rates—shows its concern.

2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 26 July (Business section) 48 He was headhunted..to handle a rash of bank failures in the recessed US economy.