crow-pheasant

[ kroh-fez-uhnt ]

/ ˈkroʊˌfɛz ənt /

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noun

a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.

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How to use crow-pheasant in a sentence

It is the first time Charles has been pictured with a gun on a pheasant shoot since December 2008.
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This mass incarceration is destroying the Black community -- it is, as Michelle Alexander writes, the New Jim Crow.
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Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women.
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Each working in its own way was essential to ending Jim Crow in the South.
Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights Era|Gary May|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Slowly, still falteringly but inexorably, Jim Crow justice was disappearing in the South.
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Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
And he quite agreed with old Mr. Crow, who had come hurrying up to see what was going on.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Mr. Crow was rocking back and forth on his perch, for a joke—on anybody except himself—always delighted him.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Farmer Green's cat had never liked Mr. Crow, for no particular reason.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey