[ad. L. columbārium: see prec. and -ARY1 Cf. F. columbaire.] A pigeon-house or dove-cote.
1549. Bp. Hooper, Declar. 10 Commandm. Wks. (Parker Soc.), 390. Such as hath … columbaries, where as doves assemble and haunt, and … feed of the poor’s corn.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. iii. 110. The earth of Columbaries or Dovehouses, so much desired in the artifice of Saltpeter.
1849. Longf., Kavanagh, xv. Thinking of the carrier pigeons of Bagdad and the Columbaries of Egypt.
