Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where pigeons are kept; a columbarium; a dove-cote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place for pigeons; a dovecote.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place for
pigeons ; adovecote .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lamouroux contain mural paintings, and that in them, in addition to stables, there is a pigeonry.
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The old monolithic chapel of the monastery remains, turned into a pigeonry, and with the steps left that gave access to the pulpit, and two pieces of sculpture on a very large scale, cut out of the living rock.
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The cliff is pierced with windows and doors, and niches for a pigeonry.
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It possesses a pigeonry much like that at Brantôme, but on a smaller scale, that wiseacres have pronounced to be a Columbarium, not for doves, but for the reception of jars containing the ashes of the dead, and have attributed this dovecote to Roman times.
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It was not only pretty and interesting in itself with its substantial grey stone outbuildings, and pigeonry and rick-yard, but Mr and Mrs Andrew Solace lived there, and they were, the children thought, such very agreeable people.
Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes Amy Walton 1873
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