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peacockeries

peacockeries is the plural of peacockery.

Meaning of peacockery

Noun

peacockery (usually uncountable, plural peacockeries)

  1. (usually) Gaudy showiness; ostentation.
    • […] he was so deeply struck with the shock of this revelation that he actually forgot himself and his own peacockery.1880, Walter Besant, James Rice, chapter XXIV, in The Seamy Side, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1888, page 280

Questions about peacockeries

What is peacockeries the plural of?
Peacockeries is the plural of peacockery.

Words near peacockeries in the dictionary

  1. peacock worms
  2. peacock's tail
  3. peacock-pheasant
  4. peacock-pheasants
  5. peacocked
  6. peacockeries
  7. peacockery
  8. Peacockian
  9. peacockiest
  10. peacocking
  11. peacockish

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