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Cooing bird
Answer for the clue "Cooing bird ", 10 letters:
turtledove
Alternative clues for the word turtledove
- Affectionate bird
- Slow pacifist?
- Any of several Old World wild doves
- Bird between the partridge and French hen
- Bird in a holiday song
- Slow pacifist?
- This animal presumably spends its entire life in a shell ... correction: just the first part of its life
- One of a carol duo
- Trade union wrangling revolted flyer
Word definitions for turtledove in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of turtle dove English)
Usage examples of turtledove.
I only know that she calls herself Henriette, that she must be a Frenchwoman, that she is as gentle as a turtledove, that she has evidently received a good education, and that she enjoys good health.
Suddenly, a turtledove of the purest whiteness comes flying in at the window, and alights upon his hand, bearing in her bill a branch of red gilliflower, on the leaves of which is written, in letters of gold, the following sentence: Awake!
Turtledove is also the author of two multivolume Alternate History fantasy series: the multivolume Videssos Cycle and the Krispes Sequence.
Sandgrouse were big enough to make a decent meal, and so were those cooing turtledoves, she thought, looking around to see if she could spot the buxom birds that resembled the brown sandgrouse in general size and shape.
RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A FAN THE other day, one who had bought a copy of Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove, which appeared in a series entitled Asimov Presents.
The notion of not ending when the buds dropped Harry Turtledove off was still a long way from real to her.
I observed among them the brown thrush, robin, turtledove, linnet, goldfinch, the large and small blackbird, wren, and several other birds of less note.
Ham/ Turtledove 203 troopers sat on either side of him on the couch in the patri arch's library.
They rode some paces in silence while in the branches above the purring coo of turtledoves serenaded them and was left behind.
Owen had talked himself down from the heavens and into the manger-he'd made me a Joseph, he'd chosen a Mary for me, he'd turned turtledoves to cows.
Didn't the description say they were similar to turtledoves in coloration?
Laurie had christened it, saying it was highly appropriate to the gentle lovers who “went on together like a pair of turtledoves, with first a bill and then a coo”.
On the table sat a finely-glazed pitcher and a basin, for washing hands and face, and next to them a wooden bowl carved with turtledoves that held ripe berries, and also two gilded cups filled with a heady-scented wine.