grotto
noun
a cave or cavern.
grottoed
-
a word derived from
grotto.
Example Sentences
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Many an ailing Catholic who is helped to the $500,000 church at its top, passing 14 grottoed Stations of the Cross on the way, claims miraculous relief from his ills.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its east pavilion was a double row of grottoed and illuminated aquaria containing the strangest inhabitants of the deep.
From Elsie at the World's Fair by Martha Finley
The shores rise above the sea in wild, bold precipices, grottoed into fantastic caverns by the action of the waves, and presenting every moment some new variety of outline.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various
The snowbird mendicant Intones the antiphon— Et laboremus nos; And all the grottoed aisles along, Where servitors rejoice, The chorused echoes run— Oremus nos.
From Ballads of Peace in War by Michael Earls
The brook, that mirrors skies and trees, And echoes in a grottoed place, Hath held a fairer thing than these,— The brook, that mirrors skies and trees,— The image of her face.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
