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In French, the word “pigeon” has two senses: a dove-like bird, but also a dupe, victim or fall guy.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2015

The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping body, the Flamingo's long slender neck and the Paloma's dove-like curves.

From Time Magazine Archive

He set up a dove-like moaning that was plainly a call for his mother as he lay sprawled out on the white sands.

From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel

The English coldness, and the soft, dove-like smile, with which she appeared in society, and the half-bored and half-ironical manner in which she accepted the homage of her admirers, were merely a mask.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul

By your lost angel, dove-like from you flown,

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver




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