Sucking-dove

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  1. 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.""

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

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