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Columba

noun

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum. Synonym: Dove.

Type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons. Synonym: genus Columba.

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... papers which refer to them, for more than one hundred years before his time. In Spain it was always written Colon; in France it is written as Colomb; while in England it has always kept its Latin form, Columbus. It has frequently been said that he himself assumed this form, because Columba is the Latin word for "Dove," with a fanciful feeling that, in carrying Christian light to the West, he had taken the mission of the dove. Thus, he had first found land where men thought there was ocean, and ...

— The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals • Edward Everett Hale

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... playing the brass instruments in the orchestra, and the fairy-folk on the stage, and seals disporting themselves in the stalls, and guillemots shooting about the upper galleries in pursuit of fish. But we should get no peace from Iona. The fairies there are very pious people. They used to carry St. Columba about when he got tired. They would be sure to demand the shutting up of all the theatres, and the destruction of the brass instruments. And I don't see how we ...

— Macleod of Dare • William Black

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Words linked to "Columba" : wood pigeon, genus Columba, bandtail, constellation, rock pigeon, band-tail pigeon, ringdove, family Columbidae, Columbidae, Columba fasciata, cushat, band-tailed pigeon, rock dove, bird genus