| 释义 |
volary Now rare.|ˈvəʊlərɪ|
Also 7 volarie, vollary, 7–8 volery.
[app. ad. F. volière, after types in -ary, -ery.]
1. A large bird-cage; an aviary. Also fig. and in fig. context.
1630B. Jonson New Inn v. i, She..now sits penitent and solitary, Like the forsaken turtle, in the volary Of the light Heart, the cage, she hath abused. 1654R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 110 In lieu of imagining it flying about the world, we may imagin it rather pent up, and fluttering about some narrow Bird-cage or volary. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 105 On the left hand before a Garden on the River-side, there is a Volary full of rare Fowl, as Estradges, Peacocks and others. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. II. 235 The gardens, the volaries, the dog-kennel, the falconry, the square and bazar..are worth seeing. 1743Lady M. W. Montagu Lett., to Mrs. Forster (1893) II. 124, I find myself so improperly lodged as if I inhabited a volery. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Coll. (Maitland Club) 186 Here is a flat, laid out like a parterre,..and a volary, which is a little place with the face of it wire. 1892Daily News 3 Sept. 5/3 Birds..living happily in..confinement in very large cages, in spacious volaries.
transf.a1637B. Jonson Underwoods xvi. Wks. (Rtldg.) 694/1, I thought thee then our Orpheus, that wouldst try, Like him, to make the air one volary. 1640Carew Poems Wks. (1824) 34 Yet thou hadst daintyes, as the skie Had only been thy volarie.
attrib.1720Strype Stow's Surv. vi. iii. II. 624/1 Edward Story, Esq; Volary-keeper to King Charles II. 1684.
2. collect. The birds kept in an aviary. Also fig.
1693Locke Educ. §94 An old Boy, at his first Appearance, with all the Gravity of his Ivy-Bush about him, is sure to draw on him the Eyes and Chirping of the whole Town Volery. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. viii. x, These things wipe off and remove the nauseating of such of them [thrushes] as sit loitering in the aviaries, and make the whole volary more greedy and voracious. |