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Six example sentences with dovecote, each labelled with its topic.
The estate's brick dovecote holds four hundred nesting niches and predates the house it now stands behind.
Architecture
Medieval tenants were forbidden to touch the lord's dovecote, even when the birds stripped their own barley fields bare.
History
A whitewashed dovecote on the Tinos hillside is photographed more often than the church at the top of the village.
Travel
Constable's sketch of the farm includes a dovecote on stilts, its white birds no more than flecks of paint.
Art
The children in the story hide their letters in the abandoned dovecote behind the orchard wall.
Literature
A manor kitchen once relied on its dovecote for young pigeons, roasted in winter when other meat was scarce.
Cooking
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