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单词 volary
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volaryn.

/ˈvəʊləri/
Forms: Also 1600s volarie, vollary, 1600s–1700s volery.
Etymology: apparently < French volière, after types in -ary suffix1, -ery suffix.
Now rare.
1. A large bird-cage; an aviary. Also figurative and in figurative context.
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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.
in extended use.1627 B. Jonson in M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt sig. a1v I thought thee then our Orpheus, that wouldst try Like him, to make the ayre, one volary.1640 T. Carew Poems 45 Yet thou hadst daintyes, as the skie Had only been thy Volarie.attributive.1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. vi. iii. 45/1 Edward Story, Esq; Volary-Keeper to K. Charles II. 1684.
2. collective. The birds kept in an aviary. Also figurative.
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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).
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