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  • noun Plural form of aerie.

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Examples

  • An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • In the narrative, their homes, or aeries, are called ‘songscapes.

    Awk Talk: Questions and Answers with Layne Maheu 2010

  • An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • He built aeries in the cliffs high above the river, the better to capture panoramic views of the advancing work.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • In fact, the two reflect the same general perspective on education, one in which commentators look down from their aeries and inform us that the trouble lies with the people in the classrooms rather than with the policies imposed on them.

    Schools would be great if it weren't for the kids 2010

  • In short order, a host of formerly rock-solid institutions showed cracks that ran all the way from their foundations to the aeries occupied by their greedy, ineffective senior management.

    Book review: 'The Devil's Casino' by Vicky Ward 2010

  • He built aeries in the cliffs high above the river, the better to capture panoramic views of the advancing work.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • THE SEEKERS in the aeries about the Hell Plains knew the moment their emissaries had failed.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

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