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Definition of Dovecots
1. dovecot [n] - See also: dovecot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovecots
Literary usage of Dovecots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1908)
"... like openings into the nests of mediaeval dovecots. Plate 80 represents a
shepherd's cottage at Normanton-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire. ..."
2. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Per pale or and az. two dolphins erect counter- changed on a chief sa. a covered
cup of the first betw. two dovecots arg. COATS, London. ..."
3. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"Justices are specially authorized to execute the acts against the breakers of
dovecots, Hume, 182; but they cannot receive complaints for shooting ..."
4. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1824)
"... of land in property ; whether he did it on the authority of custom, or of an
act of council. This statute extends not to dovecots which had been then ..."
5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1896)
"... wild pigeons be taken, “they are speedily joined by a thousand others of their
kind.” Dovecot-pigeons are those which are kept in dovecots in a semi. ..."
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