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sucking-dove en · NOUN

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1. A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.
   • "He'd put up the feathers of a sucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quakers' meeting." 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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