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Barbary cock-pigeon
Old form(s):
cocke-pidgeon
type of pigeon from the Barbary coast; [reputedly of Eastern men] man who jealously safeguards his wife
AYL IV.i.139
[Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen