dovecotes

Note 37: To expand storage capacity for the accumulation of experiences, mnemonic vessels become increasingly complex, historically; elementary images, such as dovecotes, could be incorporated into more advanced images, such as a memory palace.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

There is also the potential of "dovecotes" for wild pigeons.

5 Chicken 1991

There are some pretty villages along the upper Avon: Enfold, with its flint and stone church, and old funeral wagon in the nave; Longstreet, with the Swan pub appearing at the right moment for a lunchtime reappraisal of the route; Coombe and Fittleton, with their judas trees, mill ponds and dovecotes.

Magic circles: walking from Avebury to Stonehenge 2011

The inspiration for Christian Louboutin's boutique apparently came from his own Paris home (really, his home is packed with shoes housed in mirrored dovecotes?).

Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat Tina Gaudoin 2010

It was no surprise when his feet turned toward his tower library, following the same unerring instinct that brought pigeons to their dovecotes and silverbacks to their streams.

THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

Metaphors of architectonic storage and material assembly employed in memory training helped the individual translate sense impressions into imaginary vessels (wax tablets, change purses, dovecotes, palaces, cities) that preserved experience and kept it close "at hand."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Aristocrats adorned their properties with elaborate dovecotes resembling classical temples or medieval towers.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

At the ends of these structures, Palladio surmounted dovecotes, embedding their facades with sundials.

Angella Nazarian: The Venetian Country Villas 2009

Everybody knew about artificial selection,* or at least everybody with any experience of farms or gardens, dog shows or dovecotes.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Everybody knew about artificial selection,* or at least everybody with any experience of farms or gardens, dog shows or dovecotes.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009