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beast of venery

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A game animal.

Examples

“But soon enough he’d wake⟳ up the second, real time, to make⟳ again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like⟳ the hart, hind or hare, chased like⟳ an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form⟳ of sexual delight.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

beast with two backs beast-gate beastdom beastes beastfolk beastfulness

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