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
Come when the shadows fall, And night grows deeply dark; The barren brood, O call With song of morning lark; And from above, Dear heart of Love, Send us thy white-winged dove.
From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker
The white-winged dove is nearly one-half larger than the common mourning dove.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom
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