palomita

It was a favourite song of the sheep herders, beginning: "_Huile, huile, palomita_," which being translated means, "Fly, fly, little dove."

Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886

If you ain't played yourself out, let's have that Mexican piece that starts off with: '_Huile, huile, palomita_.'

Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886

Then Carmen lifted her from the bed to her lap, and caressed her, and rocked her gently to and fro, as she had done many a night for Concha, -- murmuring, -- "Yo sere tu madre, angel mio, dulzura mia; -- sere tu madrecita, palomita mia!"

Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Winehouse has discussed plans to cover the tattoo, which she had done by another tattooist a month after she first started dating Fielder-Civil in 2005, with a stole design in the form of either a leopard, a lioness or a palomita (dove).

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