OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12084

dovecote

/ˈdʌvkɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
palomar
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.
If you haue writ your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flutter'd your Volcians in Corioles.
she could see the malt-house with its dovecote
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