Usage examples (11)

• Here Cooney calls Peter Osgood "pavonine", which my dictionary tells me means "of or resembling a peacock".
• A quick twist took Agia out of her pavonine gown; it lay about her brown, dusty feet like a heap of precious stones.
• She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness, and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist, turning the skin there to palest...
• It suggested Thecla's book, in which I had read it; and that, in turn, the great volume of pavonine leather the old Autarch had shown me when I had asked him the way to...