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silver-dun en · NOUN

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1. A type of domestic pigeon.
   • We have tried this cross, of silver with yellow, viz.: a young yellow cock and a yearling silver hen, and obtained a hard-coloured black with bars, a hard dun also with bars, and two very badly coloured silver duns or mealies. 1908, C. H. Tattersall, S. F. Butterworth, A Treatise on the Dragoon Pigeon, page 35:

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