covies

English

Noun

covies

  1. plural of covey
    • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, pages 34...37:
      "Fine shooting," again muttered Lord Merton; "and if I knew Lord Etheringhame, he might ask me to shoot over his grounds." Campbell talks of the magic of a name—yes, if the name be partridges. "Well, Adelaide; but how do you mean to contrive it?" [...] A lingering hope of the covies gave unusual animation to her brother's manner, when he hoped their acquaintance was only begun: here Adelaide interposed: [...]
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