owlery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
owlery (plural owleries)
- (zoology) An abode of owls.
- 1850 April 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. III. Downing Street.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 93:
- Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M‘Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?
- A pen or enclosure for owls.
Synonyms[edit]
(enclosure) owldome
Translations[edit]
abode of owls
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Further reading[edit]
- “owlery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.