dowve

Middle English

Noun

dowve

1. Alternative form of douve
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 110-111:

     "And est and west upon the peple I belle/ As dooth a dowve sittynge on a berne

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “dowve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.