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† ˈpeacockly, a. and adv. Obs. exc. arch.
[See -ly1 and -ly2.]
A. adj. Peacocklike.
B. adv. In the manner of a peacock, with vainglorious display.
1580Lupton Sivqila 20 There is..such gawdie going, and such pecockly and new fashions euery day. Ibid., Why should we that are earth, ashes and dust, pricke vp ourselues so Peacockly? 1608Tarlton Cobler Canterb. (1844) 113 When Gentlemen leaue of their peacockly sutes. 1941E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner (1968) viii. 132 His coming hither but yesterday, most peacockly strained to the height of your philosophy and at an undue hour of eleven o'clock in the night.., was with purpose. |