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Definition of Ringdoves
1. ringdove [n] - See also: ringdove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ringdoves
Literary usage of Ringdoves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical, Literary, and Artistic Travels in Italy: A Complete and by Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (1839)
"... and I preferred the tender and unfortunate pigeons of La Fontaine to these
warlike ringdoves. When full of people, ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"In the humor he was in, the strangest fancy found ready admittance into his brain,
and he imagined that all the infant "ringdoves," in their prayers for ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"As a general rule, ringdoves are "he," and turtles " she " (chiefly widows), ...
it is used indifferently as the widow of " ringdoves " and of ..."
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