bevy
a group, an assembly, a collection
TRANSLATION
Schar, Schwarm (Vögel, auch Mädchen etc.), Rudel
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Shortt is a more attractive man, and was followed about by bevies of adoring women."
(Selected Letters of Rebecca West, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott)
(Selected Letters of Rebecca West, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott)
Did you
know?
Did you know?
Bevy comes from Middle English bevey. It perhaps originally signified a drinking company, possibly deriving from Old French beivre, "to drink," from Latin bibere.
Bevy comes from Middle English bevey. It perhaps originally signified a drinking company, possibly deriving from Old French beivre, "to drink," from Latin bibere.
