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
As a result, the war had lasted just two weeks, the leaders had been incontinently shot, and the white-winged dove of peace had once more spread her pinions along the borders of the Gold Coast.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant
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 Belle K. (Belle Kendrick) Abbott
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