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
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
Behind us, the high land of Missouri was rapidly disappearing, Colonel Boon's plantation getting smaller every second, till at last it appeared no bigger than a dovecot.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
She carried the doll off to the one unkempt corner of Mr. Battershall's garden, where in the shadow of a stone dovecot, ruinated and long disused, a rustic bench stood deep in nettles.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
We cannot have hawks here to flutter our dovecot.
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
