cushat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cushat
before 900; Middle English couschot, Old English cūscote wood pigeon
Example Sentences
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How quiet and still it was, only the breeze in the elms, the cuckoo’s notes, and the murmur of the unseen cushat!
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
A cushat I will presently procure and give to her Who loves me: I know where it sits; up in the juniper.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
Silent here are lark and plover; In the cover Deep below the cushat best Loves his mate, and croons above her O'er their nest, Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.
From Ballads in Blue China by Lang, Andrew
But the cushat got free for a’ that,” said the wee wifie, with nods and smiles and shrill laughter.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)
She sang so sweetly that a cushat dove flew down from a tree and followed her.
From The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations by Unknown
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