Venery

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun

English

Pronunciation

IPA: /'vɛnəri/

Etymology 1

Old (and modern) French vénerie, from vener ‘to hunt’, from Latin venari.

Noun

Singular venery

Plural veneries

1. hunting wild animals

   • 1963: But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight. — Thomas Pynchon, V.

Etymology 2

Mediaeval Latin veneria, from venus ‘love’.

Noun

Singular venery

Plural veneries

1. the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence