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Pronunciation
IPA|/'vɛnəri/

Etymology 1
Old (and modern) French vénerie, from vener ‘to hunt’, from Latin venari.

Noun
en-noun|vener|ies

1. hunting wild animals

#:*1963: But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight. — Thomas Pynchon, V.

Etymology 2
Mediaeval Latin veneria, from ''venus' ‘love’.

Noun
en-noun|vener|ies

1. the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence

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