Genus of birds of the family Columbidae.
1One was a dainty little magpie; the other a soft-eyed turtle dove.
2You have been a turtle dove lately;-nowyou will be an ogre again.
3She shall be Mimi, the turtle dove, the daughter of Onanguissé.
4Facebook Twitter Pinterest A captive turtle dove preening in Norfolk.
5He was as mild as a turtle dove, but they wouldn't stand for it.
6Soft as the down of the turtle dove
7Far, far away a turtle dove was calling-callingso softly that it almost seemed to be imagination.
8Some of Britain's most familiar countryside birds like the turtle dove have plummeted in numbers since the 1990s.
9I called her the turtle dove.
10Petro's pretty little turtle dove informed him that at first light next morning they would take their children home.
11With supply chains disrupted and "non-essential" work cut, the turtle dove feeding is likely to be curtailed.
12Wood-duck, woodcock, turtle dove and bob-white.-(A.R.
13For swearing, an offence to ears polite, rather than eternal justice, a female creature or turtle dove might be offered.
14No lyricist wants to keep linking "love" with "skies above" and " turtle dove," but what can he do?
15She had been cooing like a turtle dove, and now, "Oh, wondrous change," she wished to shoot him.
16The turtle dove and robbin are the same of our country and are found as well in the plain as open country.
Translations for turtle dove