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dovecot, -cote|ˈdʌvkɒt|
Also 6 dowcatte, Sc. doocot, dooket.
[f. dove n. + cot, cote.]
A house for doves or pigeons; usually placed at a height above the ground, with openings for the doves to enter by, and internal provision for roosting and breeding.
c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 670 Hoc columbare, dowecote. a1500in Burton & Raine Heminbrough 390 A parcell of her plase to set a doufecot on. 1503Sc. Acts. Jas. IV (1597) §74 Parkes with Deare, stankes, cunningares, dowcattes. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. vi. 115 Like an Eagle in a Doue-coat. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 3 You find here more Dove-Cots than other Houses. 1815Scott Guy M. xxii, For the moor-fowl.. they lie as thick as doos in a dooket.
fig.1893Ch. Times 6 Oct. 995/3 The flutter that has excited the journalistic dovecot.
†2. transf. A set or block of pigeon-holes. Obs.
1652Bp. Hall Invisible World i. vi, If a man distressed with care for the missing of an important evidence..shall be informed..in what hole of his dovecote he shall find it hid.
3. Comb., as dovecot-breaker, dovecot-door, dovecot-pigeon.
1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 151 When some one batters at the dovecote-doors. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., Dovecot breakers, and stealers of pigeons. 1871Darwin Desc. Man ii. xiv. II. 118 Dove-cot-pigeons dislike all the highly improved breeds. |