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volary - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun obsolete See volery .
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noun Alternative form of volery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a building where birds are kept
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AVIARY (from Lat. _avis_, a bird), called by older writers "volary ," a structure in which birds are kept in a state of captivity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
Besides, this volary was so exceedingly neat, that, considering its extent, one would think there could not be less than an hundred persons to keep it so clean as it was; but all this while not one soul appeared, either here or in the gardens where I had been, and yet I could not perceive a weed or any superfluous thing there.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous
I opened the third door, where I found a large volary , paved with marble of several fine colours that were not common.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous
Odo listened attentively, but without betraying any great surprise; and the Bishop, evidently reassured by his composure, suggested that, the heat of the day having declined, they should visit the new Indian pheasants in his volary .
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
Ben Jonson uses the word volary .] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
Ben Jonson uses the word volary .] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
Ben Jonson uses the word volary .] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 23: July/August 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
Ben Jonson uses the word volary .] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jul/Aug 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663
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