Bevy
My cousin Joe and his immediate family:
Pictured left to right, Leslie, Megan, Joe, Casey, Laura, and Annie.
…a veritable bevy…
3 definitions found for bevy
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bevy Bev"y, n.; pl. Bevies. [Perhaps orig. a drinking company, fr. OF. bev['e]e (cf. It. beva) a drink, beverage; then, perh., a company in general, esp. of ladies; and last applied by sportsmen to larks, quails, etc. See Beverage.] 1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. [1913 Webster] What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes. [1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
bevy n 1: a group of girls or young women 2: a flock of quail
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "bevy": a mass of, a world of, age group, army, assembly, band, battalion, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, charm, clique, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, fleet, flight, flock, flocks, gaggle, gang, group, grouping, groupment, hail, hive, host, in-group, jam, junta, large amount, legion, lots, many, masses of, mob, movement, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, numbers, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, plague, platoon, plurality, posse, quantities, quite a few, regiment, rout, ruck, salon, scores, set, shoal, skein, spring, squad, stable, string, swarm, team, throng, tidy sum, tribe, troop, troupe, watch, wing, worlds of