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Pavon   Listen
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Pavon  n.  A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pavon" Quotes from Famous Books



... at present is in every mouth, has in a great measure by his own exertions, and partly from the works and indications of Aublet, Bridges, Cruickshanks, De Candolle, Gardner, Gilles, Hooker, Humboldt and Bonpland, Lindley, la Llave and Lergarga, Martius, Miers, Pursch, Ruaz and Pavon, Torrey and Gray, Cervantes and Bustamente, carefully and scientifically collected above two thousand of the names with which the different races of the American Continent designate the most important of their plants. ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various

... difficult for any one not knowing him, to recognise in this plainly-dressed individual the commander-in-chief of the insurgent army encamped around, and still more difficult perhaps to have believed that he was the ci-devant "cura" of Caracuaro, Don Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon. And yet ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid



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