Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A peacock.

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  • noun (Zoöl.), obsolete A peacock.

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  • noun obsolete, rare A peacock.

Etymologies

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From Italian pavone.

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Examples

  • The most important specimens of Lumachella marbles are the pair of very fine large columns of L. rosea on the ground-floor of the Schiarra Palace, the balustrade of the high altar of St. Andrea della Valle, two columns in the garden of the Corsini Palace of L. d 'Astracane, and a pair of large pillars which support one of the arches of the Vatican Library, formed of L. occhio di pavone.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • Instead of the former vast repertory, the stately pavone, the graceful and dignified saraband, the wild

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

  • [5] _Quintus Maeonides pavone ex Pythagoreo_ (Persius).

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

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  • Quin tu igitur furama nequidquam pelle decorus Ante diem blando caudam jaftare popello i ides, Quintus pavone cx Pythagoreo.

    A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785

  • -- with its thirty columns of different coloured granites and rare marbles, cipolino, porta santa, occhio di pavone (_vide_ Corsi); its busts, its ornamented tazzas, its statues, and many other _et coeteras_ too numerous to catalogue.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

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