bevy

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WASHINGTON - Barack Obama moved emphatically Wednesday to erase the legacy of the past eight years by calling a bevy of Mideast leaders, circulating a not-yet-released executive order to close the Guantanamo prison and deliberately diminishing the powers of his own presidency.

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  1. noun A group of animals or birds, especially larks or quail. See Synonyms at flock1.
  2. noun A group or an assemblage: a bevy of beauties.

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  • We could see her seated prominently in a corner of it, surrounded by a very smart bevy--strangers mostly, New Yorkers I supposed--with Miss Gale Oliphant, strikingly costumed in scarlet, in their midst. —  The Fifth Wheel A Novel
  • From the yellow standing wheat the sparrows rose in a bevy, and settled upon the hedge, chirping merrily. —  Hodge and His Masters
  • This serviceable matron having neglected to gratify a certain justice for the connivance she enjoyed, was indicted at the quarter sessions, in consequence of which her bevy was dispersed, and herself committed to Bridewell. —  The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • Nature Air also carries expanded offerings, including private charter flights as well as a bevy of air cargo services. —  PRWeb
  • TSMC makes chips for a bevy of Intel competitors including Nvidia —  Big Tech
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman bevee.

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  1. Early modern English also beavy, beavie, from Middle English bevy, bevey, beve, from Old French beveye (“beueye [printed deueye] des heronez,” in a poem cited by Leo, Rect. Sing. Personarum, p. 40); cf. Italian “beva, a beavie,” Florio: applied especially to a flock of birds and thence to a company of ladies; orig., perhaps, a drinking company, or a number of animals at a watering-place, being thus a particular use of Old French bevee, buvee, drink, drinking (cf. Italian beva, a drink), from bevre = Italian bevere, drink: see bever, n., and beverage.
 

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