beast of venery en · NOUN
Etymology
beast + of + venery
Meanings
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A game animal.
But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.
1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| beasts of venery | Number=Plur | lexicographic |