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Definition of Dovecot
1. n. A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
Definition of Dovecot
1. Noun. A dovecote. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dovecot
1. dovecote [n -S] - See also: dovecote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovecot
Literary usage of Dovecot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"dovecot.. It is enacted by the i 1617, c. 19, that no person shall build a ...
It has 1 the statute imposes no restraint on ] one dovecot for each portion ..."
2. Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology by Charles Waterton (1844)
"Our common dovecot pigeon is only a half-reclaimed bird ; not being sufficiently
domesticated to be deemed private property in the strictest sense of the ..."
3. Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology by Charles Waterton (1839)
"Our common dovecot pigeon is only a half-reclaimed bird ; not being sufficiently
domesticated to be deemed private property in the strictest sense of the ..."
4. The Near and the Heavenly Horizons by Valérie Boissier de Gasparin, Catherine Valérie (Boissier) Gasparin (1871)
"... dovecot to tell of than a poor room; no other doves than an old man and his wife.
I was reading in my drawing-room, in Paris, ..."
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