doocot

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English

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Etymology

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From Scots.

Noun

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doocot (plural doocots)

  1. (Scotland) dovecote
    • 2009 January 29, Ray Collier, “Country diary”, in The Guardian[1]:
      The rock dove has so interbred with the feral pigeons from doocots and racing pigeon lofts that, as a pure species, it may possibly now be extinct in Britain.