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dovecote
[ duhv-koht ]
noun
- a structure, usually at a height above the ground, for housing domestic pigeons.
dovecote
/ ˈdʌvˌkɒt; ˈdʌvˌkəʊt /
noun
- a structure for housing pigeons, often raised on a pole or set on a wall, containing compartments for the birds to roost and lay eggs
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- flutter the dovecotes, to cause a stir in a quiet or conservative institution or group:
The flamboyant manner of the tourists fluttered the dovecotes of the sleepy New England town.
Example Sentences
To eastward and to westward have spread the Tuscan bands; Nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote in Crustumerium stands.
We jostled the loungers in a low-caste drinking shop and pushed on to a dark stair that rose like the ladder of a dovecote.
The dovecote is in the background, in the foreground the pretty French maid feeding the pretty pigeons.
They went into a deserted dovecote, where they found nothing but a basin full of water and a basket full of vetch.
Not ever the butcher or the baker or the candlestick-maker forced an entrance to that innocent dovecote.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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