leveret
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of leveret
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Anglo-French, diminutive of levre, Old French lievre, from Latin leporem, accusative of lepus “hare”; see -et
Example Sentences
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But, he added, capturing rare images such as a hare feeding her leveret on someone's back lawn was "just amazing".
From BBC ● May 17, 2025
“C’m’ere, you dreadful little rogue! I’ve got the very thing for you. This is a leveret dagger. All young hares carry one. Here, let’s try it on you for size, young buccaneer, what, what!”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
An innocent-looking basket or small sack-bag of mushrooms has before now, when turned upside down, been discovered to contain a couple of rabbits or a fine young leveret.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard
The doe and her leveret had lived happily in the cornfield and the meadows above the wood.
From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley
He spoke in Saxon, the language of the country folk, but at the first words a figure sprang up and dodged from shrub to rock like a scared leveret.
From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise
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