bevy

A group of animals, especially quail, roe deer or other game.collective

• The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
• But a bevy of hinds seem to try to shelter a distressed one, and by running on with her in a bunch to puzzle the hounds

A group, especially a large group, and especially a group of attractive girls or women.collective

• The same messenger who summoned the whole bevy of renegades, Dover, Peterborough, Murray, Sunderland, and Mulgrave, could just as easily have summoned Clarendon.
• One of the lords of Argouges, when out hunting one day, met a bevy of twenty ladies of rare beauty, all mounted on palfreys white as the driven snow.

Alternative form of bevvy.alt-ofalternative