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pavone

pavone noun: a peacock.

Noun

pavone (plural pavones)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A peacock.
    • Wings it had with sundry colours dight, / More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of pavone

pluralpavones

Origin of pavone

Borrowed from Italian pavone. From oblique stem of Latin pāvō, pāvōnis (“peacock, peafowl”).

Questions about pavone

What does pavone mean?
Pavone means a peacock.
What part of speech is pavone?
Pavone is a noun.
What is the plural of pavone?
The plural of pavone is pavones.

Words near pavone in the dictionary

  1. Pavo
  2. pavon
  3. pavonated
  4. pavonazzetto
  5. Pavonazzo
  6. pavone
  7. pavones
  8. pavonia
  9. pavonian
  10. pavonias
  11. pavonine

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