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bevy

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bev·y  (bv)
n. pl. bev·ies
1. A group of animals or birds, especially larks or quail. See Synonyms at flock1.
2. A group or an assemblage: a bevy of beauties.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman bevee.]

bevy
Noun
pl bevies a flock; a group [origin unknown]

Bevy a drinking company; an assembly or collection. See also covey, flight, flock, herd, swarm.
Examples: bevy of beauties, of bright damsels, 1725; of conies, 1486; of fair women, 1667; of fairies, 1603; of girls; of ladies, 1470; of larks, 1470; of maids of honour, 1808; of otter; of powdered coxcombs, 1765; of quails, 1630; of renegades, 1848; of roes [six head of roe deer], 1470; of slaves, 1611; of swans.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bevy - a large gathering of people of a particular type; "he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire"; "a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him"
assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place
2.bevy - a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground); "we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks"
quail - small gallinaceous game birds
flock - a group of birds

bevy
Translations
Spanish bevy [ˈbɛvɪ] n a bevy of → una bandada de
French bevy [ˈbɛvɪ] n a bevy of → un essaim or une volée de
German bevy [ˈbɛvɪ] n a bevy of → eine Schar +gen
Italian bevy [ˈbɛvɪ] n a bevy of → una banda di

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For on the topmost tier of the hotel verandah, after being carried up the steps in an armchair amid a bevy of footmen, maid-servants, and other menials of the hotel, headed by the landlord (that functionary had actually run out to meet a visitor who arrived with so much stir and din, attended by her own retinue, and accompanied by so great a pile of trunks and portmanteaux)--on the topmost tier of the verandah, I say, there was sitting--THE GRANDMOTHER
him bevy small-e fish-e; Queequeg no kill-e so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale
Down the hill I saw a bevy of hussars ride under the railway bridge; three galloped through the open gates of the Oriental College; two others dismounted, and began running from house to house.
 
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