Meaning of pavon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A small triangular flag, especially one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
3. The peacock bass
4. Any of various birds with ornate plumage, similar to a peacock.
   South-America
5. A tropical butterfly, Doxocopa pavon, noted for the iridescent purple coloration of the male.
6. A subtropical plant of genus Peperomia.
7. A hydrochloride of opium alkaloid, similar to Pantopon, used as a pain medication.

Examples

“High silken pavilions or colored marquees, shooting up from among the crowd of meaner dwellings, marked where the great lords and barons of Leon and Castile displayed their standards, while over the white roofs, as far as eye could reach, the waving of ancients, pavons, pensils, and banderoles, with flash of gold and glow of colors, proclaimed that all the chivalry of Iberia were mustered in the plain beneath them.”

“In modern parlance, under the generic name of flag is included standards, ancients or ensigns, banners, bannerolls, pavons, colors, streamers, pennons, pennoncelles, gonfanons, guidons , coronetts or coronells (hence the title of colonel), and the like.”

“Another flag, a pavon, is bendy of 10 arg. and az . which is a Mountford, Montford, or Montfort coat. This pavon occurs again, except that the number of bends seems to be 11 or 12: such variations are of no moment, as there is another Mountfort coat bendy of 12 or and az.”

“Some of these books contain illustrations of this flag; nevertheless there is not, nor has there ever been, bunting of any shape or size named a pavon.”

“The pavon shape was popular in the fourteenth century.”

“I danced with him a pavon to please my godmother, who would have it; though I do hate with all my heart that slow solemn dance; a country round, for steps and spirit, is worth it a hundred times over.”

“Meantime, the king and his band having finished their stately "pavons" and " corantos high " with the utmost success, his majesty, in high good-humour, bade the ladies come forward and pluck the golden letters and devices from his dress and that of his company.”

“Her Latin and French had been much approved of, and by-and-by she was to show off her dancing by dancing a pavon before him.”

“More wholeheartedly an English physician, John Jones, on the authority of Sir thomas Elyot, Erasmus and others, recommends among sports and pastimes "comely dancing for preserving the healthy spritis as also for strenghening the sound bodie, using only that kind of Musicke called Dorios, where neyther deformitie is practised, nor wantonnesse enticed, but rather these virtues (as sheweth Erasmus and Fuchsius) as prudence, modestie, sobrietie and policie in Bargenets, Pavons, Galiardes, Sturgions and Roundes only."”

“A pavon on every cast and my hands were raw from grabbing their jaws.”

“A fast, noisy retrieve excited most strikes; if a pavon swirled short, a dancing lure usually triggered a follow-up attempt.”

“In Venezuela, the pavon is the national freshwater fish of the country.”

“My very favorite place to fish the pavons, especially the big peacock pavons, is in low clear water.”

“To console our bereavement somewhat, she sent down to the galliota a pair of young, noisy, half-fledged parrots, and a pavon or sun-bird .”

“This is often stated to be the female of the pavon, but the opinion is erroneous, the pava not even appearing to belong to the same genus as the pavon, and having more the characer of a Penelope or Salpiza.”

“The head boy had just been stalking a pavon (peacock), and was aiming at it up in a tree when a jaguar aimed at him behind.”

“The Pavon is yet another tropical member of the huge Brush-footed Butterfly family that just barely enters the United States, in southeast Texas, and even there only rarely.”

“Then, as I was spreading Ben's special brew on the big log over the wash, a general call went up: "Pavon!" I ran,and there was Doxocopa pavon all right, on a fruit basket.”

“The Pavon plant , which appears to be similar to Mandon No. 1123 , has no ripe fruits , but was probably the plant on which the original description was based , for Pentland's plant is without doubt a specimen of P. peruviana, Dahlst”

“This indicates that pavon is a diluted pantopon, a pavon tablet is equivalent to half a pantopon tablet , and an ampule of pavon to half a ampule of pantopon .”

“Many similar preparations have appeared since, viz., glykopon, glykomekon, totopon, holopon, pavon, etc.”

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