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  • The 11-bedroom ch â teau is part of an estate that includes a four-bedroom manor house, a caretaker's cottage, a pigeonnier, an old winery, two swimming pools and nearly seven hectares of land.

    Challenges of Castle Ownership 2010

  • One night he found lodging in a log pigeonnier and the birds ignored him except when he rolled over, and then they all stirred and made watery gurgling sounds and settled back in.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • One night he found lodging in a log pigeonnier and the birds ignored him except when he rolled over, and then they all stirred and made watery gurgling sounds and settled back in.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Only be punctual, with me things go by the clock, my house is a pigeon-house (pigeonnier).

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • The _pigeonnier_ had been pulled down to make room for a shed with a steam-engine, and the whole aspect of the place was revolutionized; but the stream and water-mill (the latter a mere picturesque ruin) were still there; the stream was, however, little more than a ditch, some ten feet deep and twenty broad, with a fringe of gnarled and twisted willows and alders, many of them dead.

    Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865

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  • A free-standing dovecote.

    May 9, 2008

  • Ha!

    May 9, 2008

  • But it's true! Some of them are quite lovely, actually. *admits to having looked at photos of pigeonniers online*

    May 9, 2008