beast of venery
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]beast of venery (plural beasts of venery)
- A game animal.
- 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
- 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.