Definition of "fallow-deer" [fallow-deer]

• Attributive form of fallow deer, noun. (adjective)

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• "Into this romantic region the father and daughter proceeded, arm in arm, by a noble avenue overarched by embowering elms, beneath which groups of the fallow-deer were seen to stray in distant perspective."
• "All those that she had seen had horrified her with their fallow-deer laughter and their coarse limbs."
• "The stag, as well as the fallow-deer, and the roe, were formerly so abundant that, according to Lesley, from five hundred to a thousand were sometimes slain at a hunting-match; but the native races would already have been extinguished, had they not been carefully preserved in certain forests."