a drinking company; an assembly or collection. See also covey, flight, flock, herd, swarm.
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Examples: bevy of beauties, of bright damsels; of conies; of fair women; of fairies; of girls; of ladies; of larks; of maids of honour; of otter; of powdered coxcombs; of quails; of renegades; of roes [six head of roe deer]; of slaves; of swans.