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Search phrase: cock-pigeon

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As You Like ItAYL IV.i.139of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, moreof thee, then a Barbary cocke-pidgeon ouer his hen, more

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Barbary cock-pigeontype of pigeon from the Barbary coast; [reputedly of Eastern men] man who jealously safeguards his wife

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World [outside Britain], places and peoples... famous for swift horses and a breed of cock-pigeon barfleur e3 iii iii 20 ha...

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