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
Gwynneth and Llewelyn perhaps sitting silent below, heard sounds as of a cushat dove cooing over its young.
From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa
The offspring nestled to the parent, who gathered her to her bosom, covered her with noiseless kisses, and murmured love over her like a cushat fostering its young.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
The cushat in the thicket of spruce hears the west wind’s lullaby, and ceases to croodle.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon
It was like a muckle black corbie carrying off a cushat doo.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)
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