| 单词 | ostrich farm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasostrich farm ostrich farm n. a farm on which ostriches are reared for feathers, skin, or meat (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping ostriches > ostrich farm ostrich farm1874 1874 Amer. Naturalist 8 757 The system on which ostrich farms are conducted. 1885 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 63/2 The great mercantile value of Ostrich-feathers..led to the formation in the Cape Colony..of numerous ‘Ostrich-farms’. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 July 21/5 The White and Gold Room at Buckingham Palace, in which ladies sit in rows before passing into the Throne Room to curtsy to Their Majesties, is irreverently referred to on court-nights by junior members of the household as ‘the ostrich farm’. 1995 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) Nov. p. iv/2 (advt.) Visit the Cango Caves and then on to an ostrich farm for lunch. < as lemmas |
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