aerie

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  1. noun The nest of a bird, such as an eagle, built on a cliff or other high place.
  2. noun A house or stronghold perched on a height.

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  • It became evident that his skyscraper aerie was one incredible maze of mechanical devices. —  029 - Quest of Qui
  • They rode a slower lift lip to the eighty-sixth floor aerie, only to discover Doc had gotten whatever he had wanted from his laboratory, and had departed THE home of Scott S. Osborn, sugar importer, was a castlelike stone building perched atop a low hill in a wooded section of Pelham, one of the northern residential suburbs of New York City. —  005 - The Pirate of the Pacific
  • It was breezy up in our aerie, but private and safe. —  Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
  • Perched in his aerie, he could see a long way down the road snaking back to Lake Placid. —  Going for the Gold - Emma Lathen - Thatcher 18
  • Wherever beauty dwells In gulf or aerie, mountains or deep dells In light, in gloom, in star or blazing sun Thou pointest out the way, and straight 'tis won Amid his toil thou gav'st Leander breath Thou leddest Orpheus through the gleams of death Thou madest Pluto bear thin element And now, O winged Chieftain! —  Endymion A Poetic Romance
 

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  1. Medieval Latin aeria, from Old French aire, from Latin ārea, open space, threshing-floor.
 

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/ˈɛˈrɪ, ejˈrɪ, ejəri/
by Mary Mark Ockerbloom
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