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Originally Posted by brute
The Latin name for a peacock is also pavo. Does the real part of pavorreal mean royal oo just real in this contextThe French call a turkey "dindon or dinde".
I wonder if this means Indian (d'Inde)?
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No idea about the origin of the French words, but "real" in this case, alludes to "royal" without a doubt because of the "ornamental" feathers of those birds.