a small European deer (Dama dama) having a yellowish coat spotted with white in summer
Origin of fallow deer
see fallowfallow deer
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fallow deer
noun
A small Eurasian deer (Dama dama) having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white in summer and broad, flattened antlers in the male.
Origin of fallow deer
Obsolete fallow reddish- or brownish-yellow from Middle English falow, falwe from Old English fealu ; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
fallow-deer
- attributive form of fallow deer, noun.
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Sentence Examples
- It is typically an animal of the size of a fallow-deer.
- Here may be mentioned the gigantic fossil deer commonly known as the Irish elk, which is perhaps a giant type of fallow-deer, and if so should be known as Cervus (Dama) giganteus.
- For the fallow-deer, Cervus [Dania] dama, see Fallow-Deer.