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eyrie
Now the commonest spelling of aerie.
1667,1861[see aerie 1]. 1902W. de la Mare Songs of Childhood 14 A hawk from his eyrie Swooped down like an arrow. 1922Joyce Ulysses 582 Birds of prey..swooping from eyries. 1937J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit vi. 115 You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night! 1955W. G. Hoskins Making Eng. Landsc. iii. 62 The limestone crags above Littondale provided eyries for these noble birds. 1965E. Gowers Fowler's Mod. Eng. Usage 13/1 Aery, aerie, eyry, eyrie. The victory of the last form over the other three seems to have been undeserved. |