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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Peacock, Thomas Love 1785-1866. British writer noted for his satirical novels, including Nightmare Abbey (1818).
Examples
“Peacock is just 22 and was a 41st-round pick in 2006.”
The Washington Post: Brad Peacock's emergence and an Arizona Fall League update
“Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush, and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, both published by W.W. Norton and Company. download MP3 listen to commentary”
Molly Peacock reads “Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room” by William Wordsworth
“The White Peacock is frequently mistaken for an albino, but it is a colour variety of Indian Blue Peacock.”
“The manager, Deb Peacock, is an amiga of mine and the Rose of Morelia's, Jennifer.”
“The Yazidis worship a deity they call the Peacock Angel.”
“But Hewitt saw Peacock's unselfish attitude in a whole new light the day he called Peacock into his office two weeks into preseason practice.”
“The "Peacock" -- a second of the new sloops-of-war, bearing the name of”
“If radio embraces the album's risque "Peacock" -- a phallus-fetishizing song that Perry calls "a silly play on words ... an obvious innuendo, and I love an obvious innuendo" -- it will be in part because Perry already proved with "I Kissed a Girl" that she can sell sexual taboos with the best of them.”
“Wilkes, who loathed them as "condor-eyed savages," admits that the only thing which any native attempted to steal from the Peacock was a hatchet, and upon being detected the chief requested the privilege of taking the man ashore in order that he might be roasted and eaten.”
“He said this in a very haughty way, as though to be a Peacock were the grandest thing in the world, far better than having one's home in the sky and bringing showers to refresh the thirsty earth-people.”
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Markab, Adhara, Aldhafera, Sham, Sinistra, Zubenelgenubi, Sag, Skat, Rastaban, Peacock, Media, Grumium and 89 more...
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Arcadia, a play by Tom Stoppard
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