Meanings
nounpavone (plural pavones)
plural pavones
- obsoleterareA peacock.
Wings it had with sundry colours dight, / More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Ancient Greekταώς (taṓs)bor.?
- Latinpāvōnem
- Italianpavone
- Englishpavone
Borrowed from Italian pavone. From oblique stem of Latin pāvō, pāvōnis (“peacock, peafowl”).
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pavone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pavone
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