dovecote/ˈdʌvkɒt/EtymologyFrom dove + cote.nounA small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.“If you haue writ your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flutter'd your Volcians in Corioles.”In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.