dove-cote

If this guy is not from the dove-cote, he should consider the efforts of Mexicans leaving their lovely villages every year to get a piece of what he is rejecting.

howdy yall, wife and I want to be free 2005

Who can resist words like pott (OED: "originally bearing the watermark of a pot"), columbier ("F. colombier dove-cote, used in same sense"), demy, double elephant?

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For Soames the dove-cote was solidifying again, now that he knew

The Silver Spoon 2004

A bomb bursting on the dove-cote down there could not have been more startling.

The Silver Spoon 2004

I put a stop to the Suggestion that the thatch of the dove-cote be set afire with flaming arrows, but was obliged in the end to submit to being Scalped.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

In the bright sunlight, you can pick out bits of the mansion through the trees, of the dairy, of the kitchen, and of the smaller buildings; while farther out stand the roomy barns and the quaint turreted dove-cote.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

When we reached the edge of the Shirley homestead and passed the turreted dove-cote, the near-by objects had grown quite distinct.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

An allied species, the dove-cote bug (_Cimex columbaria_), attacks domestic fowls and pigeons.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

"Hoo! hoo! to-whoo!" they both screeched in front of the neighbor's dove-cote to the doves within.

Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore Laure Claire [Editor] Foucher

The suffixes - ārium, - ētum, - īle designate a place where objects _are kept_ or _are found in abundance_; as, -- columbārium, _dove-cote_ (columba); olīvētum, _olive-orchard_ (olīva); ovīle, _sheep-fold_ (ovis).

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett