LekhoriLekhoriA depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
The recesses of the forest answered well the purposes of concealment, and Lucy was useful both as an unsuspected messenger, and also for the intelligence she was able to obtain.
A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
Of a place or time: distant, remote.
[…] I ſhould think it beſt in the ſubſequent diſcourſes to begin to examine vvhether the Earth be eſteemed immoveable, as it hath been till novv believed by moſt men, or elſe moveable, as ſome ancient Philoſophers held, and others of not very receſſe times vvere of opinion; and if it be moveable, to enquire of vvhat kind its motion may be?
To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
His house stood recessed from the road, and the stables, which are to a farm what a fireplace is to a house, were behind, their lower portions being lost amid bushes of laurel.
A village in County Galway, Ireland.
The noun is borrowed from Latin recessus (“act of going back, departure, receding, retiring; (figuratively) retreat, withdrawal; (metonymically) distant, secluded, or secret spot, corner, nook, retrea...
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To make a recess (noun noun, sense 1 and noun, sense 1.1) in (something).
to recess a wall
Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
That gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.