单词 | fallow deer |
释义 | fallow deern. 1. A medium-sized Eurasian deer typically found in woodland and at woodland edges, Dama dama, having a reddish- or greyish-brown coat, spotted with white in summer, with a white rump and a black line on the back and tail, and with palmate antlers in the male.The fallow deer is thought to be native to Asia Minor, but has been dispersed throughout much of Europe by human agency, beginning in ancient times; it was later introduced to most of the other continents.See also fallow adj.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > cervus dama (fallow deer) fallow deera1425 fallow1611 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv. 119 All shall be Jugged folie of reed deere byneth herte, and falowe deer byneth þe bucke. a1450 in T. Wright Songs & Carols (1856) 42 (MED) Half a honderid of fat falyf der he comyn aȝon. 1536 Adam Bell, Clim of Clough, & William of Cloudesly (Byddell) sig. C.i We haue slayne your fatte falowe dere. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 104 Herds of Vallow Deer. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 With cries of Hounds, thou mayst..chace the fallow Deer . View more context for this quotation 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week i. 5 Made of the skin of sleekest fallow deer. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 125 The stag and the fallow deer. Alike..in the superb furniture of their heads. 1836 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. II. 257/1 The horns of the male fallow-deer, or buck, are divergent, terminated above by a flattened longitudinal palm, toothed with what are termed advancers. 1885 J. G. Bertram Brit. Alm. Comp. 70 The best venison for the table is supplied by the fallow deer raised in the home parks of England. 1908 Victoria Hist. County of Warwick II. 294 Stoneleigh Abbey..stands in a beautiful and well-wooded old park of 574 acres, of which 370 acres are assigned to a herd of about 300 fallow deer. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside iv. 49 For many centuries fallow deer were semi-agricultural animals, not roaming the countryside but enclosed in parks or protected in forests. 2009 J. Struthers Red Sky at Night 30 With their delicate appearance and white-spotted, chestnut summer coats, fallow deer are very attractive. ΚΠ 1584 R. Hakluyt tr. J. Cartier in Disc. Western Planting (1993) 23 There is greate store of stagges, redd dere, fallowe dere, beares, and other suche like store of beastes. 1672 W. Talbot tr. J. Lederer Discov. i. 8 Great herds of Red and Fallow Deer I daily saw feeding. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 55 There remains then the buffalo, red deer, fallow deer, wolf, roe, glutton,..and water rat. 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 19 Feb. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1990) IV. 328 The Black tailed fallow deer are peculiar to this coast and are a distinct species of deer. 1867 Beadle's Monthly Mar. 273/1 Both the Virginia or American fallow deer, (Cervus Virginianus) and the wapiti (Cervus major) seem to fill all the forest's wilds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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