Doveling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A young or baby dove.

    "On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings."

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doveletdoveletsquab

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"On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings."

Etymology

From dove + -ling.

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