dove of peace

plural doves of peace

1. The dove as a symbol of peace and pacifism, typically depicted carrying an olive branch.

   The second half of the programme was to belong to Surkov. He was given an enthusiastic reception as he strode onstage, his jeans skintight, his T-shirt embossed with a dove of peace, his yellow hair flapping.

   1990, D. M. Thomas, Lying Together, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 157

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   Most psychedelic response to a painkiller / “Rainbows, white puffy clouds, doves of peace flying across the sky. Mozart on the piano, contrary motion scales, arpeggios up and down the keyboard, Beethoven—crashing thunder—it was all so beautiful. It was all so perfect.” / Bill Walton, 2002

   2005, Kerry Banks, The Unofficial Guide to Basketball’s Nastiest and Most Unusual Records, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 151

   In November 1950, Paix et liberté released a poster entitled “La colombe qui fait boum” (“The dove that goes boom!”). The motif, a tank disguised as a dove of peace, was very close to the illustration for a book that Taubert had published[…].

   2014, Bernard Ludwig, “Paix et liberté: A Transnational Anti-Communist Network”, in Luc van Dongen, Stéphanie Roulin, Giles Scott-Smith, editors, Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War: Agents, Activities, and Networks (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 88