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Meaning of peacockly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of peacockish (“striking; ostentatious”).

archaic

Examples

“1835, The Military and Naval Magazine of the United States First came the drum-major, that important and most peacockly personage, regulating the direction and progress of the band by the graceful flourish of the gold-headed "baton."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

peacocky peagrowing peajacketed peak Peakean peaked

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