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  • Since ascending to his second term in office, Ahmadinejad has twice peacocked in New York on the United Nations stage, in September and again in May.

    Iran's Arc Of Injustice 2010

  • That narrow-headed chap, ‘Old Mont,’ peacocked about his ancestry; all the more reason for having no ancestry to peacock about.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • He let his blue eyes rest upon them calmly as they peacocked across to St. George's Hospital, still laughing, and evidently discussing him.

    The Green Carnation Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • She peacocked about the room, frankly delighted at her own reflection in the mirrors, and practised the pose she was to assume on the Float.

    Patty's Butterfly Days Carolyn Wells 1902

  • "Aren't we having the time of our life?" exclaimed Rosamond, as she peacocked about, gazing over her shoulder at her long court train.

    Patty in Paris Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Sir Blaise peacocked over the lawn, delicate as Agag.

    The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

  • The dress was made to reach right down to the ankles, in deference to Lady Hayes's ideas of propriety, and Darsie felt prodigiously fine and grown-up as she peacocked about before the long glass of her bedroom wardrobe on the day of the garden-party itself.

    A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • (And you peacocked it out with that feather boa and everything!)

    Cracked: All Posts Kathy Benjamin 2010

  • I put on my finest red heels, a skirt, eyeliner, I peacocked myself up a storm.

    PEAS ON TOAST 2010

  • I put on my finest red heels, a skirt, eyeliner, I peacocked myself up a storm.

    PEAS ON TOAST 2010

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