English
Noun
en-noun
- A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
- In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.
Alternative spellings
dovecot
Quotations
2003: she could see the malt-house with its dovecote — Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, p2.
Related terms
flutter in the dovecote
dove
Translations
Dutch: duiventil m, duivenkot n
Esperanto: kolombejo, svarmejo
French: :fr:colombier|colombier m
German: Taubenhaus n
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Finnish: kyyhkyslakka
Russian: гол�б��н�|гол�б���н� (golubjátnja) f
Serbian: golubarnik
Spanish: palomar m
ru:dovecote
vi:dovecote
zh:dovecote
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