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单词 dovehouse
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dovehousen.

Forms: see dove n. and house n.1 and int.; also Middle English duffous.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dove n., house n.1
Etymology: < dove n. + house n.1 Compare dovecote n.Compare Middle Dutch duufhuus (Dutch duifhuis), Middle High German tūbhūs, tūbenhūs (German Taubenhaus). Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdovehouse.
a. A house for doves; a dovecote.
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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.
attributive.1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 29 Sitting in the sun vnder the Doue-house wall. View more context for this quotation1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xiv. 357 Overstocked with dove-house pigeons.
b. figurative. A small petty house or place.
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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).
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