单词 | dovehouse |
释义 | dovehousen. a. A house for doves; a dovecote. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping or breeding pigeons > dovecote culver-house1340 dovehouse14.. columbairec1420 dovecotec1425 pigeon house1442 columbary1549 louvre1579 loft1735 pigeonry1840 pigeonnier1880 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 730 Hoc columbare, dowfhows. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 24 The gardynes, berne, and duffous. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 215 Dove house..Dufhouse, columbier. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 175 The sides cut full of holes (in manner of a doue-house). 1887 C. W. Boase Hist. Oxf. 22 There had been elm walks..with dove-houses. b. figurative. A small petty house or place. ΚΠ 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxi. 587 Howe is it..that this peuysshe doue-house holdeth agaynst vs so longe? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.14.. |
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