golden pheasant

American  

noun

1. an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.

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golden pheasant British  

noun

1. a brightly coloured pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, of the mountainous regions of W and central Asia, the males of which have a crest and ruff

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golden pheasant

These included the animals that had been confiscated by the police four years earlier, as well as a lion, a domestic dog, a golden pheasant, and everything else that remained of the ménagerie at Versailles.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2011

Go to bed second, a golden pheasant; Go to bed third, a golden bird.

From Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes by Various

Plumage displays are indulged in by turkeys, the blue bird of paradise, the greater and lesser birds of paradise, the sage grouse and pinnated grouse, ruffed grouse, golden pheasant and argus pheasant.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple

Some of these belonged to that Chinese variety whose wings open like a fan, and whose plumage rivals in brilliance that of the golden pheasant.

From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.

He is only too kind to me, in my share of it, and I begin to fancy myself a golden pheasant, upon the strength of the plumage wherewith he hathPg 101 bedecked me.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas