Usually means: Housing structure for domestic pigeons.
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  1. dovecote: Merriam-Webster
  2. dovecote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dovecote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dovecote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dovecote: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dovecote, dovecote: Wordnik
  7. dovecote: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dovecote: Wiktionary
  9. dovecote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dovecote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dovecote: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dovecote: Dictionary.com
  13. Dovecote (disambiguation), Dovecote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dovecote: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dovecote: Rhymezone
  16. Dovecote: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dovecote: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dovecote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dovecote: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dovecote: Encyclopedia

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noun:  A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
noun:  (historical) In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.

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