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Definition of Doves
1. dove [n] - See also: dove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doves
Literary usage of Doves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"The letter-doves (Koord- jer) of Bagdad remained, and became an ... The merchants
of Cairo feed a great number of such doves to convey letters to their ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"About one third of the three hundred known species of Pigeons and doves are found
in the New World, but of this number only twelve species occur in North ..."
3. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Arg. a fess vairy or and az. betw. three doves ppr. bearing in their beaks a ...
Vert a fess or fretty gu. betw. three doves arg. membered of the third. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"TJ OW those quarrelsome and loosely conducted birds, the 1 1 doves, ... And how,
if the doves could ever read English poetry, they would put their tongues ..."
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