Noun

1. A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
2. In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.

Quotations

• 2003: she could see the malt-house with its dovecote — Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, p2.