英语词汇“dovehouse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

dovehouse

释义

ˈdovehouse
Also 5 duffehous, duffous, etc.
A house for doves; a dovecot.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 730 Hoc columbare, dowfhows.1463Bury Wills (Camden) 24 The gardynes, berne, and duffous.1530Palsgr. 215 Dove house..Dufhouse, columbier.1615G. Sandys Trav. 175 The sides cut full of holes (in manner of a doue-house).1887C. W. Boase Oxford 22 There had been elm walks..with dove-houses.
attrib.1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iii. 28 Sitting in the Sunne vnder the Douehouse wall.1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 357 Overstocked with dove-house pigeons.
b. fig. A small petty house or place.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclxi. 587 Howe is it..that this peuysshe doue-house holdeth agaynst vs so longe?

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