[f. FALLOW a.1 + DEER.] A species of deer (Cervus dama or Dama vulgaris) smaller than the stag or red deer. So called from its color. Also fallow-buck, -doe.

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15[?].  Adam Bel, 469. We haue slaine your fat falow der.

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1548.  Thomas, Ital. Gram. & Dict., Dama, a valow deere.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 623.

        With cries of Hounds, thou may’st pursue the fear
Of flying Hares, and chace the fallow Deer.

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1720.  Gay, Poems (1745), I. 77. Monday; or the Squabble.

          See this tobacco-pouch, that’s lin’d with hair,
Made of the skin of sleekest fallow deer.

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1851.  Longf., Gold. Leg., IV. Refectory.

        And the cells
Hung all round with the fells
Of the fallow-deer.

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