venery

Example Sentences

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He further Foxified the White House by offering a top job to Bill Shine, the former Fox News enforcer who oversaw the creepy cover-up of the Roger Ailes-Bill O’Reilly venery.

From New York Times

Women, who as a gender are at risk of sexual indulgence - or "venery" - should avoid eating "hard, fat things and spices" because such comestibles cause the body to become more heated.

From BBC

Another solution is for a maiden to simply get married - and when their venery is met by "the enjoyment of their husbands, they become more gay and lively".

From BBC

They’re “terms of venery,” collective nouns for various animals, most of them originated centuries ago by hunters.

From Washington Post

To those who would “learn the art of venery or hunting,” wrote George Turberville in 1576, “let him give eare, to skilfull Trystrams lore.”

From Salon