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单词 pavone
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pavonen.

Forms: 1500s pauone, 1800s pavone.
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian pavone.
Etymology: < Italian pavone (see pawn n.2). Compare earlier pea n.1, po n.1, pawn n.2, and peacock n., peahen n. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (păvōu·n) /pəˈvəʊn/.
poetic. Obsolete. rare.
A peacock.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > paro cristatus (peafowl) > male or peacock
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peacockc1175
pawnc1400
pavone1590
bird of Juno1655
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn8 More sondry colours, then the proud Pauone [rhymes stone, alone] Beares in his boasted fan.
a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) i. 4 Its colour heav'nly blue, bedropt with gold, And crimson, gorgeous as the proud pavone.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Pavone, a peacock. (Not used.)]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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