were cooing
-roucoulais
Past progressive conjugation of coo. There are other translations for this conjugation.
The windows of the house were full of pigeons that were cooing and fluttering.
Les fenêtres de la maison étaient pleines de pigeons qui roucoulaient et voletaient.
The sky was a pale and tender blue and far away across the fields a cuckoo was calling, the wood pigeons were cooing and the blackbirds began their morning song.
Le ciel était d'un bleu pâle et tendre, quand, au-delà des champs, surgit l'appel du coucou ; les pigeons des bois se mirent à roucouler et les merles firent entendre leur chant matinal.
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