Dovecote
A structure built to house and shelter doves — a small architecture for creatures that return.
A dovecote in a dream is the dream's image of a small architecture built for creatures that return. The dovecote does not hold the doves in; it gives them a place worth coming back to. The dream brings the dovecote when something in your life — a home, a circle of friends, a household role — is built around being the place that other people are free to leave and choose to come back to. A dovecote full at dusk is the dream affirming the drawing power of the prepared place. A dovecote empty at dusk, with the perches dust-covered, is the dream noting that the place was kept and the inhabitants have stopped choosing it, and the keeping needs to be paid attention to before it stops being maintained.