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Middle English
Noun
dowve
- Alternative form of douve
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC, lines
110-111:
"And est and west upon the peple I belle/ As dooth a dowve sittynge on a berne- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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