ETYMOLOGY
from house + dove
EXAMPLE
“…safe and sounde to Rome, and euery man riche and loden with spoyle: then the hometarriers and housedoues that kept Rome still, beganne to repent them that it was not their happe to goe with him…”
From: The Liues of the Noble Grecians and Romanes
– Plutarch
– Translated by Thomas North, 1579
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