Definition of "recesses" []

• Plural form of recess. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recess. (verb)

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• "We can now say that a source close to Justice Souter has confirmed to CNN that he plans to retire from the court after the term recesses in late June."
• "Jinn who haunted the mountain recesses and the forest wilds ages before the first man trod the earth."
• "The ceilings were low; the walls rough papered or rougher whitewashed; the sashes not hung; the rooms, otherwise well enough proportioned, stuck with little cupboards, in recesses and corners, and out of the way places, in a style impertinently suggestive of housekeeping, and fitted to shock any symmetrical set of nerves."