PEACOCK


Meaning of PEACOCK in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

feather

A vase full of peacock feathers smashed to the floor.

After all, peacock feathers still shine brightly when their owner is dead and stuffed.

But he strew the water with peacock feathers and the camels crossed over them like a bridge.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Above the scoop neckline of her peacock blue dress, an ill-defined rash of mottled pink broke out, then faded.

Every time she seduces a fresh peacock , she wins a little extra sperm that she probably does not need.

He climbed away from their reaching hands, on to the very top of the gantry, breaking the spines of his peacock wings.

In a few weeks' time this year's peacocks, immaculately spruce, would emerge from pupae.

No one in Lancre had ever worn a waistcoat embroidered with peacocks.

The peacock butterfly normally rests with its wings pressed tightly together.

The low-growing peacock gingers also would fit well in such a grouping.

There was a peacock there, stampeded by the queue.

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