Doveling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Doveling is a noun meaning A young or baby dove.
Meaning
A young or baby dove.
Example Sentences
She began to wring her hands. "Oh, my poor doomed dovelings . . . my darling star-crossed daughters . . ."
Their guan beaks, coupled dovelings, the poorotten, leafing their livers, nieces of the cloud . . . Life! Life! This is life!
On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings.
Word Forms
- dovelings
Synonyms for doveling
Depending on context, synonyms include dovelet, squab.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dovelet, deerling, doveship, ruddy, doling, dovecot.
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