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Webster 1913 Edition
Pavone
Pa-vone′
,Noun.
[Cf. It.
pavone
, Sp. pavon
, fr. L. pavo
.] (Zool.)
A peacock.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pavone
PAVO'NE
,Noun.
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English
Noun
pavone (plural pavones)
- (obsolete, rare) A peacock.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- wings it had with sundry colours dight, / More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi: