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单词 columbary
释义 columbary|ˈkɒlʌmbərɪ|
[ad. L. columbārium: see prec. and -ary1. Cf. F. columbaire.]
A pigeon-house or dove-cote.
1549Bp. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 390 Such as hath..columbaries, where as doves assemble and haunt, and..feed of the poor's corn.1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. iii. 110 The earth of Columbaries or Dovehouses, so much desired in the artifice of Salt⁓peter.1849Longfellow Kavanagh xv, Thinking of the carrier pigeons of Bagdad and the Columbaries of Egypt.
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