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Definition of Dovecotes

1. dovecote [n] - See also: dovecote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovecotes

Literary usage of Dovecotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the ... Conference by International Law Association Conference (1907)
"The whole thing seems ridiculous, but it has evidently caused considerable flutter in diplomatic dovecotes, and may, of course, have its graver aspects. ..."

2. The Zincali: Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain. With an Original by George Henry Borrow (1843)
"Cordova—Moors of Barbary—The English—An Old Priest—The Roman Breviary—The Dovecote— The Holy Office—Judaism—Desecration of dovecotes—The Innkeeper's ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Architectural Jurisprudence: In which the by James Elmes (1827)
"dovecotes. THE Lord Chancellor in the case of Kimpton v. Eve (d), Waste to de- decided that it was waste to destroy a dovecote, and cotes, ..."

4. The Bible in Spain: Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an by George Henry Borrow (1845)
"Cordova—Moors of Barbary—The English—An Old Priest—The Roman Breviary—The Dovecote— The Holy Office—Judaism—Desecration of dovecotes—The Innkeeper's ..."

5. The Land of the Monuments: Notes of Egyptian Travel by Joseph Pollard (1898)
"... of birds— Pigeons—dovecotes. rI ''HE voyage was resumed on the following morn- J. ing by sunrise, when the entire extent of the Pyramid region from the ..."

6. The Bible in Spain: Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an by George Henry Borrow, Ulick Ralph Burke (1907)
"Cordova—Moors of Barbary—The English—An Old Priest— The Roman Breviary—The Dovecote—The Holy Office— Judaism — Desecration of dovecotes — The Innkeeper's ..."

7. A Practical View of the Statute Law of Scotland: From the Year MCCCCXXIV, to by James Watson, Esq James Watson (1828)
"dovecotes. The statutory limitation as to the right of erecting pigeon-houses is founded on the legal maxim, that no person is entitled to use his property ..."

8. The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac for by John Jacob Thomas (1873)
"CONSTRUCTION OF dovecotes. Since the fancier has become acquainted with the origin of the pigeon, the detail of selecting, its habits and peculiarities, ..."

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