Crossword clues for bevies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bevy \Bev"y\, n.; pl. Bevies. [Perhaps orig. a drinking company, fr. OF. bev['e]e (cf. It. beva) a drink, beverage; then, perh., a company in general, esp. of ladies; and last applied by sportsmen to larks, quails, etc. See Beverage.]
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A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here !
--Beau. & Fl. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.
Wiktionary
n. (bevy English)
Usage examples of "bevies".
The harts and hinds in their herds, the boars in their singulars, the skulks of foxes, the richesses of martens, the bevies of roes, the cetes of badgers and the routs of wolves: all came to him more or less as something which you either skin or flayed and then took home to the cook.
No cow dung or horse droppings, but several bevies of sparrows, which kept regrouping and raised their hubbub to the third power when Amsel alit from the bus.
But Margot remained loyal to all her old obligations, and invitations to her wedding-reception were accepted by whole bevies of young men who made it their boast that they never went out except to a square meal, while little Davy Lennox, who for three years had never been known to give anyone a 'complimentary sitting', took two eloquent photographs of the back of her head and one of the reflection of her hands in a bowl of ink.
Or some old woman would come with her pails to the spring below, a curious and very old stone well, to which the cattle from the common often rushed down past me in bevies, and stood knee-deep, their mouths making glancing circles in the water as they drank.