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Meanings of peafowl in English
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Examples for "peacock"
Examples for "peacock"
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.
1
The following morning we got a peahen at the same place.
2
When the peahen saw what had happened to the duck, she left the island.
3
She followed attentive as a peahen, he spreading a gorgeous tail of accumulated information.
4
In the peahen's case, picking the poorest male will leave her hardly affected at all.
5
Even in the street he is the peacock, coloured much more splendidly than the peahen.
Usage of peafowl in English
1
The peafowl and sarus cranes are indulging in the pleasures of courtship.
2
The peafowl in the tree were about to eat the last of them.
3
This plain was covered with wild indigo, and abounded with peafowl.
4
Indian peafowl also roam, as do spoonbills, pelicans and painted storks.
5
You must mean the nine sisters, the enchanted princesses, who fly about as peafowl.
6
I presently got a shot at a peafowl, and killed her with my rifle.
7
A few belated peafowl may still be found with eggs, but these are exceptions.
8
The peafowl were no sooner gone than the Prince rubbed his eyes and looked about.
9
This place literally swarmed with peafowl, partridges, and deer.
10
One very important thing is at stake in the peafowl case: a bunch of genes.
11
The Chinese rear ducks; the tame fowl abounds; but the turkey, goose, and peafowl are seldom met with.
12
The purple peafowl, wholly overmastered
13
We had peafowl fly brushes.
14
I'll tell you what you ought to do: give up thought of this peafowl princess and marry my daughter.
15
They had a peafowl.
16
On the stroke of midnight there was a whirr of wings and nine beautiful peafowl came flying down from the sky.
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