white-winged dove
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of white-winged dove
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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It cost $300 per day this past fall for white-winged dove hunting in South Texas.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2020
Barksdale started with recordings of the white-winged dove, a still-living relative of the passenger pigeon.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2013
"Cactus Jack" had spread a super-Texas breakfast: orange juice, mourning dove, white-winged dove,* chicken, rice and gravy, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, honey, preserves, pecans, coffee.
From Time Magazine Archive
In my new home, I shall watch and wait for some tidings, some missive like a white-winged dove, bearing me a single word of love and remembrance from my beloved father.
From Leah Mordecai by Abbott, Belle K. (Belle Kendrick)
And then return with the speed of love, When the night grows dark and chill, And tell us, oh, tell us, thou white-winged dove!
From Canadian Wild Flowers by Johnson, Helen M. (Helen Mar)
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