• (British) IPA: /ˈdʌv.kɒt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈdʌv.kɑt/

dovecote (plural dovecotes)

1. A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

   Synonyms: columbarium, doocot, dovehouse

   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene vi], page 30 ↗:

     If you haue writ your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flutter'd your Volcians in Corioles.

2. (historical) In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.

• flutter in the dovecote
• dove

• French: colombier
• German: Taubenhaus
• Portuguese: pombal
• Russian: голубя́тня
• Spanish: palomar