单词 | volary |
释义 | volaryn. Now rare. 1. A large bird-cage; an aviary. Also figurative and in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > aviary aviary1577 volary1627 volliere1638 volatory1656 birdhouse1687 menagerie1749 bird room1776 birdery1816 1631 B. Jonson New Inne v. ii. 37 She..now sits penitent and solitary, Like the forsaken Turtle, in the volary Of the light Heart, the cage, she hath abus'd. 1654 R. 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. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant 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. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant II. 235 The gardens, the volaries, the dog-kennel, the falconry, the square and bazar..are worth seeing. ?1743 Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. (1906) 331 I find myself as improperly lodged as if I inhabited a volery. 1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 186 Here is a flat, laid out like a parterre,..and a volary, which is a little place with the face of it wire. 1892 Daily News 3 Sept. 5/3 Birds..living happily in..confinement in very large cages, in spacious volaries. 2. collective. The birds kept in an aviary. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > wild or domestic birds > [noun] > domestic > kept in cage or aviary cage-bird1626 volary1693 cageling1859 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. 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. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1627 |
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