Definitions
male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots
Word origin
From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, first component from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock, peafowl”), ultimately from Latin pāvō; equivalent to pea + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “peafowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc.
Used in a sentence
“When a reader recently inquired if people really eat peacock, I stated that I’d never tasted the bird, roasted or otherwise, and as far as I knew, it is rarely cooked anywhere in the world.”
“Nor do many people today long to eat peacock, which was both a privilege and an ordeal reserved for royalty.”
“Nero, infamous emperor of Rome, built a rotating dining room in which guests could eat peacock while flower petals fluttered down from special panels in the ivory ceiling.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Showy male bird”7 letters
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