fallow-deer
(ˈfæləʊˈdɪə(r))
[f. fallow a.1 + deer.]
A species of deer (Cervus dama or Dama vulgaris) smaller than the stag or red deer. So called from its colour. Also fallow-buck, fallow-doe.
| 15.. Adam Bel 469 We haue slaine your fat falow der. 1548 Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict., Dama, a valow deere. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. III. 623 With Cries of Hounds, thou mayst..chase the fallow Deer. 1720 Gay Poems (1745) I. 77 Made of the skin of sleekest fallow deer. 1851 Longfellow Gold. Leg. iv. Refectory, The cells hung all round with the fells of the fallow-deer. |