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Meanings of bestiary in English

Russian
бестиарий
Portuguese
bestiário
Spanish
bestiario
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Compendium of beasts.

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бестиарий
Usage of bestiary in English
1
With brilliant finesse, she assigns social contacts to a grisly bestiary.
The Guardian
2
But he was half in love too with the bestiary of antique and wrongheaded lore.
The Guardian
3
A griffon from the pages of an illuminated bestiary.
The Guardian
4
He flipped through his bestiary, to the pages that dealt with creatures of the netherworld.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
5
And his bestiary studies produced the text he'd memorised with the encouragement of his tutor's switch.
King rolen's kin: the uncrowned king
6
Peter Beste's human bestiary is hitting the road, and landing in Hollyweird for one torturous month.
Wired
7
That tolerable romp owed more to Raiders of the Lost Ark than anything from Universal's inter-war bestiary.
The Irish Times
8
This year's show is a bestiary, with the man-into-beast, beast-into-man metamorphosis as a kind of secondary theme.
The new yorker
9
I returned to the table and flipped through the children's book again before abandoning it for the bestiary.
The Name of the Wind
10
Before I even reached the bestiary I could hear roaring and trumpeting, strangely incongruous in the environs of Rome.
Venus In Copper
11
In pursuit of a fiendishly perfect Hellboy universe, they filled reams of sketchbooks with variations on Mignola's sinister bestiary.
Wired
12
Barbara Weir, who owns a talent bestiary called All-Tame Animals and had cast the "Carmen" menagerie, seemed satisfied.
The new yorker
13
The ultimate aim, as I gather it, was to produce something like these enviable unions... my beautiful bestiary...
Alien: Covenant
14
Had to fend off demands from his lawyer, his mother, and a whole aristo-bestiary, that we drop everything and search for the trillie-clown.
Existence
15
Some of the panels were circles, and they were filled in with coats-of-arms; some were squares and they contained a bestiary of that day.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
16
But many of these species (pictured in the book like fugitives from a medieval bestiary) were so outlandish he doubted their very existence.
Imajica: Complete Edition
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Translations for bestiary
Portuguese
bestiário
Bestiary through the time