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pavonine, a. and n.|ˈpævənaɪn|
[ad. L. pāvōnīn-us, f. pāvōn-em peacock: see -ine1.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to, resembling or characteristic of a peacock.
1656Blount Glossogr., Pavonine, of or belonging to a Peacock or a Peahen. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xx, The lanky, pavonine strut, and shrill genteel scream. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) II. ii. 20 Groups of peacocks and lions..not expressive of very accurate knowledge either of leonine or pavonine forms.
b. Zool. Of or pertaining to the genus Pavo or sub-family Pavoninæ, including the peafowl.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict.
2. Resembling the neck or the tail of the peacock in colouring.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 313/1 Pavonine, Peacock colour, or Peacock like. 1813J. Forsyth Italy 162 Plain marbles were stained or inlaid..: hence their pavonine beds. 1851S. Judd Margaret xvi. (1871) 135 Everything became a sort of pavonine transparency. 1857Mayne Expos. Lex., Pavoninus, Bot., having the eye-like spots resembling those seen on the peacock's tail, as the Acherus pavoninus: pavonine.
B. n.
1. An iridescent lustre found on some ores and metals; peacock-tail tarnish.
1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 80 Pavonine, or Peacock-tail tarnish. This is an assemblage of yellow, green, blue, red, and brown colours, on a yellow ground... Example, Copper-pyrites. 1825W. Hamilton Dict. Terms Arts & Sc., Pavonine..In Painting, peacock tail tarnish.
2. Zool. A bird of the sub-family Pavoninæ.
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