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in pride

in pride phrase: with its tail feathers spread.

in pride: with its tail feathers spread
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Phrase

in pride

  1. With its tail feathers spread.
    • Over the fire-place on the right hand, there is a group of heathen celestials: - Jupiter and Juno, in a reclining posture, with their mythological insignia (the eagle holding the thunderbolts, and the peacock in his pride); […]1841, Irvin Eller, The History of Belvoir Castle: From the Norman Conquest to the Nineteenth Century, page 301
    • I remember, too, seeing the Peacock in pride above the arms of the late Sir Matthew Tierney, the physician, […]1861, All the Year Round, page 281

Questions about in pride

What does in pride mean?
In pride means with its tail feathers spread.
What part of speech is in pride?
In pride is a phrase.

Words near in pride in the dictionary

  1. in potentiâ
  2. in power
  3. in practice
  4. in prejudice of
  5. in present
  6. in pride
  7. in prime twig
  8. in principal
  9. in principle
  10. in print
  11. in prison

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