dove-like
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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
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And yet after all there was something about her, about her grey, dove-like dress and her gentleness, which smacked of Clapham.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
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
Dolly sat knitting, the light shining on her infantile fair hair, her eyes downcast in a dove-like meekness.
From In the Mountains by Arnim, Elizabeth von