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▪ I. menagerie|məˈnædʒərɪ|
Also 8–9 -ery, (8 managerie, menegerie).
[a. F. ménagerie domestic administration, management of cattle, building of a cattle-farm, now chiefly in sense 1 below; f. ménage: see ménage and -ery. Cf. managery.]
1. A collection of wild animals in cages or enclosures, esp. one kept for exhibition, as in zoological gardens or a travelling show. Also, the place or building in which they are kept.
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 23 Menagery is a Place where they keep Animals of several Kinds for Curiosity. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 8 Laguerre's father..became master of the menagerie at Versailles. 1829Landor Imag. Conv., Albani & Pict.-Dealers Wks. 1853 II. 12/2 As to the lion, he has been in the menagery from his birth. 1886J. G. Wood in Leis. Hour 445 From early childhood I have been in the habit of frequenting menageries.
b. transf. and allusively.
1784Cowper Tiroc. 293 What causes move us, knowing as we must That these Menageries all fail their trust, To send our sons to scout and scamper there? 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. vii. (1872) 241 Our menagerie of live Peers in Parliament. 1854Macaulay Biog., Johnson (1860) 121 An old quack doctor named Levett..completed this strange menagerie.
†2. An aviary. Obs.
1749Lady Luxborough Lett. to Shenstone 29 Aug., I have reared but one single Guinea-chick this year.—If I had such a command of corn and of water as you have, I should be apt to fall into the expense of a Ménagerie. 1757Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. 461 The menagerie is not stored with great variety, but great quantities of Indian pheasants. 1830‘B. Moubray’ Dom. Poultry (ed. 6) 129 The Noblemen and Gentlemen who have private menageries for pheasants.
Hence meˈnagerist, a keeper of a menagerie.
1850in Cansick Epitaphs Middlesex (1872) II. 130 To the Memory of George Wombwell (Menagerist),..died..1850.
▪ II. menagerie, -ery
variant forms of managery. |