Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tame or domesticated pigeon.

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Examples

  • Make the evening-meal of mutton and house-pigeon, plentifully seasoned and spiced; then take of this electuary with a spoon and wash it down with a draught of boiled date-wine. '

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

  • The blue house-pigeon is the variety principally reared for the table in this country, and is produced from our farmyards in great numbers.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The blue house-pigeon is the variety principally reared for the table in this country, and is produced from our farmyards in great numbers.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

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