sucking-dove (pluralsucking-doves)

1. A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, inThe Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC:

     "He'd put up the feathers of asucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quakers' meeting."

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