ringdove

American  

[ring-duhv] / ˈrɪŋˌdʌv /

Or ring dove

noun

1. a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.

2. wood pigeon.

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ringdove British  

/ ˈrɪŋˌdʌv /

noun

1. another name for wood pigeon

2. an Old World turtledove, Streptopelia risoria , having a greyish plumage with a black band around the neck

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Etymology

Origin of ringdove

First recorded in 1530–40; ring ¹ + dove ¹

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Example Sentences

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ringdove

Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother who granted each infant desire; Our cottage it stood in a wood-embower'd vale, Where the ringdove would warble its sorrowful tale.

From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirk White

But, beneath its loose feathery garments, her body, hardly larger than that of a ringdove, is altogether out of proportion to her long, narrow head and wide-spreading talons.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees

O Eternal, I thank thee!" and he groaned and recited these couplets,    "I heard a ringdove chanting plaintively, *       'I thank Thee, O Eternal for this misery!'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Then the pigeon and ringdove were devoured to the bones and declared excellent.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by F. P. Walter

It cooed and sang to him at times like the soft ringdove calling to its mate, and, at times again, it gurgled and piped like a thrush happy in the sunlight.

From Here are Ladies by James Stephens

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