ringdove
or ring dove
Origin of ringdove
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How to use ringdove in a sentence
A lamb stands by her side, and a tame ringdove is perched on her wrist.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls | VariousWe make out the frigate to be the Terpsichore, and the sloop, I know by her new royals, is the ringdove.
The Wing-and-Wing | J. Fenimore CooperHer words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily.
Ulysses | James JoyceIt was very like the hawk perched over and clawing the ringdove she has struck down.
The siskin and the ringdove vied with each other to do them pleasure, all day long their music rejoiced ear and soul.
British Dictionary definitions for ringdove
/ (ˈrɪŋˌdʌv) /
another name for wood pigeon
an Old World turtledove, Streptopelia risoria, having a greyish plumage with a black band around the neck
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