sucking-dove

noun

A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.

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Meanings

nounsucking-dove (plural sucking-doves)

plural sucking-doves

  1. A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.

    "He'd put up the feathers of a sucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quakers' meeting."

    1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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