Definition of "dove-cote" []

• A small structure placed at a consider-able height above the ground, as on a building or a pole, for the roosting and breeding of domestic pigeons; a house for doves. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If this guy is not from the dove-cote, he should consider the efforts of Mexicans leaving their lovely villages every year to get a piece of what he is rejecting."
• "Who can resist words like pott (OED: "originally bearing the watermark of a pot"), columbier ("F. colombier dove-cote, used in same sense"), demy, double elephant?"
• "A bomb bursting on the dove-cote down there could not have been more startling."