/pair" dah veedz", pair' day"vidz/
a medium-sized, reddish-gray deer, Elaphurus davidianus, of which stocks were obtained in Peking in 1865 and brought to parks in Europe before the remaining Chinese deer were killed in 1900: the species is sustained in captivity.
[ 1895-1900; named after Père Armand David (1826-1900), French missionary, the deer's first European observer ]