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Definition of Pavonian
1. a. Of or pertaining to a peacock.
Definition of Pavonian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the peacock ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pavonian
1. pertaining to a peacock [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pavonian
Literary usage of Pavonian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"... and o: of pavonian renown, who gloried in the title of " Discoverers,-!
having been engaged in the nautical expedition from Conm paw, in which they so ..."
2. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by Robert Browning, W. Tyas Harden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, William Groser (1880)
"... with statements and accounts,—a chaos of which you are the God ; a sepulchre
which encloses in a dormant state the Chrysalis of the pavonian Psyche. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"And if Mr. Peek brings back some lost sheep to the pavonian fold, he will not
have worked in vain. We cannot take leave of this book without referring to ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1893)
"... the Harden Brocks, and others of pavonian renown, who gloried in the title
of '' Discoverers," from having been engaged in the nautical expedition from ..."
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