aviary

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Our house was like an aviary, and the mate, though he did not know how to tame them himself, liked to see me do so.

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  1. noun A large enclosure for holding birds in confinement.

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  • In the aviary was a cock-robin, the dear, kind, little cockrobin of the "Babes in the Wood," whom I so venerated in my childhood; and though any hope of breeding was out of the question in a miscellaneous collection such as I kept, I generally tried to have all my birds in pairs, so that each sex might have a mate of its own kind to converse with in such a mixed company. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • My pair were located in a special outside aviary, along with a "laughing jackass" and a jay. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • A note along with them told me they had been found dead in the aviary, and were sent to me so that I might have them stuffed. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • No rats or other vermin could get into the aviary, and I did not suspect any of its companions. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • The aviary was the only pristine place in the realm-quite an exorbitance, given the aerial army it would take to protect the place. —  J
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  1. Latin aviārium, from avis, bird; see awi- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin aviarium, an aviary, neuter of aviarius, of birds, from avis, bird: see Aves.
 

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