cushat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cushat
before 900; Middle English couschot, Old English cūscote wood pigeon
Example Sentences
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I trust thou hast come home to work like a decent lass, and not sit moaning with thine hands afore thee like a cushat dove.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
As she sat thus the soft cry of the cushat fell upon her ears.
From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Alexander Macbain
She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
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 Arthur Mee
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
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