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venery

/ven-uh-ree/US // ˈvɛn ə ri //UK // (ˈvɛnərɪ, ˈviː-) //

金库,金矿,金钱,金银珠宝

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : the gratification of sexual desire.

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Examples

  • The venery was a little further off, drawing toward the park.

  • And very carefully the Queen's Highness observeth the laws of the chase, of venery and hawking.

  • Thus beasts of forest (the “five wild beasts of venery”) were the hart, the hind, the hare, the boar and the wolf.

  • Venery, ven′ėr-i, n. the act or exercise of hunting: the sports of the chase.

  • The same word gives us venery—the term that was used in the fourteenth century, by Chaucer among others, for hunting.