noun. A small cave or cavern.

noun. An artificial structure or excavation made to resemble a cave or cavern.

noun. A subterranean cavity; a natural cavern, or an ornamented excavation or construction more or less remotely resembling a natural cave, made for shade or recreation.

noun. A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

noun. A small cave.

noun. An artificial cavern-like retreat.

noun. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.

noun. a small cave (usually with attractive features)

"In one marvellous passage he defines the word "grotesque" from the word grotto, a small cave and goes on to sing the praises of the "modern master printers who think like the scribes of our old Icelandic languages" and decorate their texts with impossible creatures –"a centaur here, an old woman with birds' feet there, a three-headed dog"."

grot  

cave  

Otto  Swatow  legato  lotto  ostinato  

alcove  avenue  bower  canyon  cavern  

abri  antre  bunker  burrow  cast  

grottoes