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Definition of Pigeon loft
1. Noun. A raised shelter in which pigeons are kept.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigeon Loft
Literary usage of Pigeon loft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"A domestic knowing the length of a ladder which ehe had used previously to reach
a pigeon loft assumes the risk of using it for that purpose when it is too ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1861)
"The next Sunday both the quadrangle and the pigeon-loft were deserted and ...
A new set had succeeded to the pigeon-loft, assisted by a flute and a violin. ..."
3. The Jack of All Trades: Fair Weather Ideas by Daniel Carter Beard (1904)
"When the Pigeon-Loft Floor is nailed down, set the door-jambs in place, between
DJ and BH, and the window-jambs between DJ and FL, as shown by Fig. 32. ..."
4. The War and the Future by John Masefield (1918)
"He stood beside the pigeon-loft biting his finger nails. ... The pigeon came
circling out of the smoke, and came down to the pigeon-loft and went in. ..."
5. Famous Living Americans, with Portraits edited by Mary Griffin Webb, Edna Lenore Webb (1914)
"Upon inquiry it turned out that the burglary had been committed in a pigeon loft,
the owner being a peevish old man who claimed that the boys had long ..."
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