dovecote
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- noun
- /ˈdʌvˌkoʊt/
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palomar
- The village had two streets before 1947, the longer of which, Village Road, curved along the green, where the school, built by the family, and the dovecote, its prerogative, still stand.
- built a dovecote
Examples
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An unseen fountain burbled; from a hidden dovecote came a low cooing and the soft flutter of wings.
Fiction book (1993) -
Every morning, the sound of cooing filled the air near the dovecote in the backyard.
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One is a dovecote, built by Karl to house his pigeons.
Academic text (2009) -
The name came from the presence of a dovecote that was a prerogative of a lord of the manor in the Middle Ages.
Academic text (1990) -
Conducting us to a tall, cylindrical building, Theodore explains this is a dovecote—or ducut in Scotland.
Fiction book (1999) -
The farmer built a new dovecote to provide shelter for his pigeons.
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In the garden, there stood a quaint dovecote with doves nesting inside.
Synonyms
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A small building where people keep chickens or other birds
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A small box hung outside where birds can make a nest
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A raised shelter where people keep pigeons
A small building with many spaces where pigeons or doves nest
A small building where people raise and keep pigeons
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Etymology
Dovecote comes from the simple parts dove and cote, where cote comes from an old English cot meaning 'small shelter'. So a dovecote is literally a 'small shelter for doves', which is why the word means a little building where pigeons or doves live.