turtle-dove

[tur-tl-duhv]

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noun

any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.

mourning dove.

a sweetheart or beloved mate.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English turtildove, equivalent to turtil turtle² + dove dove¹

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"I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves."

-Henry David Thoreau

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