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turbit
[ tur-bit ]
noun
- one of a breed of domestic pigeons having a stout, roundish body, a short head and beak, and a ruffled breast and neck.
turbit
/ ˈtɜːbɪt /
noun
- a crested breed of domestic pigeon
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of turbit1
Example Sentences
Turbit, tur′bit, n. a domestic pigeon having white body, coloured wings, and short beak.
White soop, turbit, and lobster sos; saddil of Scoch muttn, grous, and M'Arony; wines, shampang, hock, madeiria, a bottle of poart, and ever so many of clarrit.
By searching for breeds still preserved in distant lands, and by going back to historical records, tumbler-pigeons, carriers, and barbs can be closely connected with the parent rock-pigeon; but we cannot thus connect the turbit or the pouter.
But here is a more remarkable fact: I crossed a turbit, which has a frill formed by the feathers being reversed on its breast, with a trumpeter; and one of the young pigeons thus raised showed at first not a trace of the frill, but, after moulting thrice, a small yet unmistakably distinct frill appeared on its breast.
When fowls, pigeons, or cattle of different colours are crossed, and their offspring change colour as they grow old, or when the crossed turbit acquired the characteristic frill after its third moult, or when purely-bred bantams partially assume the red plumage of their prototype, we cannot doubt that these qualities were from the first present, though latent, in the individual animal, like the characters of a moth in the caterpillar.
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