Crossword-Solution: PEACOCKS
We have 12 clues for the answer “PEACOCKS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Birds with eyelike spots on their tails | 1 answer |
| Birds with iridescent plumage | 1 answer |
| Colorful zoo denizens. | 1 answer |
| Epitomes of pride | 1 answer |
| Juno's symbols. | 1 answer |
| Ostentatious sorts | 1 answer |
| Pheasant's male kin | 1 answer |
| Proud ones. | 1 answer |
| They have eyes in back of their heads | 1 answer |
| Showy birds | 2 answers |
| Vain ones | 2 answers |
| Dandies | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PEACOCKS (5)
Only the carnations and peacocks want filling in; and then it could be framed and glazed, and hung beside your aunt’s, ma’am.” “Samplers are out of date—horribly countrified.
The Jay and the Peacock A Jay venturing into a yard where Peacocks used to walk, found there a number of feathers which had fallen from the Peacocks when they were moulting.
But, as he descended the hill, he was startled by a prolonged and raucous cry, discordant, very harsh, thrice repeated at exact intervals, and, looking up, he saw one of Father Sarria's peacocks balancing himself upon the topmost wire of the fence, his long tail trailing, his neck outstretched, filling the air with his stupid outcry, for no reason than the desire to make a noise.
How dull and shapeless the nursery teapot seemed in comparison! And there was a carved sandal-wood box packed tight with aromatic cotton-wool, and between the layers of cotton-wool were little brass figures, hump-necked bulls, and peacocks and goblins, delightful to see and to handle.
They made everything into a meadow and had more horses, cattle, and sheep than a county fair, and everything you ever knew with feathers, even peacocks.
Quotes with PEACOCKS (3)
The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors, and shut out all history and activity untouched with beauty and peace; and now when I looked at my Crevelli and pondered on the rose in the hand of the Virgin, wherein the form was so delicate and precise that it seemed more like a thought than a flower, or at the grey dawn and rapturous faces of my Francesca, I knew all a Christian's…
I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of your face in that of the moon, your tresses in the plumage of peacocks... alas! Timid friend- no one object compares to you.
Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to the waiting egg below; luminescent s…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1959–2020).