dovecote
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A dovecote (sense 1) with birds.
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdʌvkɒt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdʌvkɑt/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: dove‧cote
Noun
dovecote (plural dovecotes)
- A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
- Synonyms: columbarium, (Scotland) doocot, dovehouse, pigeon loft
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 30:
- If you haue writ your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flutter'd your Volcians in Corioles.
- 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 2:
- she could see the malt-house with its dovecote
- (historical) In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.
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house or box in which domestic pigeons breed
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