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.]
1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons,
especially of ladies.
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What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! --Beau.
& Fl.
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2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd
of roes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bevy
n 1: a group of girls or young women
2: a flock of quail
WordNet (r) 2.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "bevy":
a mass of, a world of, age group, army, assembly, band, battalion,
body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, charm, clique, cloud, cluster,
clutter, cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie,
covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, fleet,
flight, flock, flocks, gaggle, gang, group, grouping, groupment,
hail, hive, host, in-group, jam, junta, large amount, legion, lots,
many, masses of, mob, movement, muchness, multitude, murmuration,
nest, numbers, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx,
plague, platoon, plurality, posse, quantities, quite a few,
regiment, rout, ruck, salon, scores, set, shoal, skein, spring,
squad, stable, string, swarm, team, throng, tidy sum, tribe, troop,
troupe, watch, wing, worlds of
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