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“They’re both at their most peacocky and glamorous when they fall in love, and they grow together as a couple,” the costume designer adds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2024

It was fun to put them in the book in their peacocky '70s incarnation where they really were the brightest stars in journalism.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

And yet it was asked, more than once last Thursday, at the Frick Collection Young Fellows Ball, a peacocky gala on the early spring social calendar.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

I disliked their peacocky sheen and illegible surfaces.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021

Little Wun-lee's father, Nang-Poo, Let her do just what she wanted to do; Made her processions with peacocky banners In the most regal and lavish of manners.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir