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
On minds of dove-like innocence possess’d, On lighten’d minds, that bask in virtue’s beams, Nothing hangs tedious, nothing old revolves In that for which they long, for which they live.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
I feel as if her kind, blue, dove-like eyes rested soothingly on my hot forehead.
From Stories and Pictures by Isaac Loeb Peretz
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 Isabel Hornibrook
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