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Meanings of peacock in English
Portuguese
inachis io Catalan
paó European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot.
Usage of peacock in English
1
The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
2
This moral is perhaps less implicit in the lines on the peacock:-
3
Pieces of old mahogany swelled forth; a peacock-patterned chintz draped the bedstead.
4
The extreme end of the rear extension held the long peacock feathers.
5
The purpose of the trip is to bring back a Congo peacock.
6
Another peacock and two peahens met their deaths before she confronted Clough.
7
The door having been opened, the peacock came slowly in, prancing calmly.
8
It just made his day when his pet peacock terrorized the opposition.
9
Cross-amplification was also successful for another species of peacock bass, C. kelberi.
10
He is the peacock and is all green and gold and blue.
11
The company owns traditional television network NBC, whose logo features a peacock.
12
The occasion would involve a meal at which peacock would be served.
13
The peacock's tail might look superb-buthave you ever seen peacocks fly?
14
I think a peacock might've felt nude in all this rainbow splendor.
15
Probably it conceals some defect; the man's as vain as a peacock.
16
Turkey Proudfoot must have forgotten all about the peacock, when he spoke.
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Peacock across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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