Sentence:  By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, <WSD>polecat</WSD> eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  notably, the European polecat, (Mustela putorius).