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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bevy \Bev"y\, noun; pl. {Bevies}. [Perhaps orig. a drinking company, fr. OF. bev['e]e (cf. It. beva) a drink, beverage; then, perh., a company in general, esp. of ladies; and last applied by sportsmen to larks, quails, etc. See {Beverage}.]
1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! --Beau. & Fl.
2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bevy
noun
1: a group of girls or young women
2: a flock of quail
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "bevy": a mass of, a world of, age group, army, assembly, band, battalion, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, charm, clique, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, fleet, flight, flock, flocks, gaggle, gang, group, grouping, groupment, hail, hive, host, in-group, jam, junta, large amount, legion, lots, many, masses of, mob, movement, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, numbers, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, plague, platoon, plurality, posse, quantities, quite a few, regiment, rout, ruck, salon, scores, set, shoal, skein, spring, squad, stable, string, swarm, team, throng, tidy sum, tribe, troop, troupe, watch, wing, worlds of
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