game-head

English

Noun

game-head (plural game-heads)

  1. A taxidermically preserved head of a game animal for display purposes.
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:
      Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.
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