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单词 pigeon roost
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pigeon roost
pigeon roost n.
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1766 R. Rogers Ponteach iii. iii. 60 We've more to do than fright a Pigeon Roost, Or start a timorous Flock of running Deer.
1803 D. Story Let. 3 June in T. M. Harris Jrnl. Tour (1805) 180 I have visited two pigeon roosts, and have heard of a third... One is supposed to cover one thousand acres: the other is still larger.
1914 Washington Post 21 Mar. 6/6 There was a ‘pigeon roost’, where they assembled in such numbers as to break with their weight the trees on which they roosted.
2003 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 22 May (Sport section) 8 And it's progress that the council recognises the Oval grandstand will no longer be left as a pigeon roost.
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