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

At the close of the fourteenth century, S. Catherine of Siena sustained the purity and "dove-like simplicity" of the earlier trecento style, with more of fervor and personal power than any subsequent writer.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

Fate had given the youngster for a wife a little innocent, with kiss-curls, dove-like eyes, and a baby face, from which there spoke the pure soul of an angel.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

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.