dovecote
noun
a structure, usually at a height above the ground, for housing domestic pigeons.
dovecot
-
a variation of
dovecote.
Example Sentences
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The site also includes a rare 16th Century beehive-shaped dovecot and a private chapel.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
We cannot have hawks here to flutter our dovecot.
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
Colonel King, of Hythe, stocked his dovecot with young wild birds which he himself procured from nests at the Orkney Islands; and several specimens, kindly sent to me by him, were all plainly chequered.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Charles Darwin
When I go into that yard, the pigeons from your dovecot flutter at my feet.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
At the lower end is a soldier, a tiny realistic house, a dovecot, any number of flowering plants, a stag and other animals.
From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes
