beast of venery

noun

A game animal.

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Meanings

nounbeast of venery (plural beasts of venery)

plural beasts of venery

  1. A game animal.
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    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.

Origin

beast + of + venery

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