cushat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cushat
before 900; Middle English couschot, Old English cūscote wood pigeon
Example Sentences
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Neither is it particularly intellectual, for its nest shows no more contrivance than that of a cushat dove.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
The sudden whirr of a cushat is an incident, or the leaping of a lamb among the broom.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
O sweet are Coila’s haughs an’ woods, When lintwhites chant amang the buds, And jinkin’ hares, in amorous whids Their loves enjoy, While thro’ the braes the cushat croods With wailfu’ cry!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
But hath my fledgeling cushat here slept ill?
From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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