单词 | peacock train |
释义 | > as lemmaspeacock train peacock train n. ΚΠ 1737 J. Thurston Fall i, in Poems Several Occasions (ed. 2) 113 View'd the gay court, with all it's peacock train, Regardless view'd it, and came home again. 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 22 A plague upon these envoys, I hate their peacock trains. 1991 Independent (Nexis) 21 Apr. 42 The peacock train (which the bird regrows each year, like a deer's antlers) weighs about three-quarters of a kilogram, in a bird with a body weight of 5kg. < as lemmas |
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