/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Silver Pheasant (A)
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A beautiful young lady of the high aristocracy.
“One would think you were a silver pheasant, you give yourself such airs.”—Ouida: Under Two Flags.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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