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beasts of venery

beasts of venery is the plural of beast of venery.

Meaning of beast of venery

Noun

beast of venery (plural beasts of venery)

  1. A game animal.
    • But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of...1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

Questions about beasts of venery

What is beasts of venery the plural of?
Beasts of venery is the plural of beast of venery.

Words near beasts of venery in the dictionary

  1. Beastons
  2. beasts
  3. beasts of burden
  4. beasts of draught
  5. beasts of prey
  6. beasts of venery
  7. beasts on
  8. beasts with two backs
  9. beastship
  10. beasty
  11. beat

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