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dovecotes

n. (plural of dovecote English)

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Dovecotes

Dovecotes is a housing estate at Pendeford, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is situated NNW of the city centre and neighbours Pendeford Park which is adjacent to the border with Staffordshire, within the Oxley ward of Wolverhampton City Council.

Usage examples of "dovecotes".

Above the town there were groupings of houses and dovecotes, small white cubes set down on harsh gray earth, with long walls of rough gray stones forming terraces to hold whatever soil there was from slipping into the bay.

The Greek brushed lightly past him in the shadows, heading for the dovecotes door, a knife in his hand.

Ordinand had caused a huge flutter in the dovecotes of owners of good-as-gold horses, and I in conjunction with our chummy insurance syndicate at Lloyds was busy raising defenses against copycat kidnaps.

Christmas season, for choice, causing a slight flutter in the dovecotes of the fair sex and being made a lot of by ladies out for sensation, cases of which, as he happened to know, were on record--in fact, without giving the show away, he himself once upon a time, if he cared to, could easily have.

For such a devout character, I must say, the Reverend has certainly let loose a storm of cats in the dovecotes of Europe today.