menagerie

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As Quentin and his menagerie were an interruption to my interview with the Department of Justice, I suggested that he go into the next room, where four Congressmen were drearily waiting until I should be at leisure.

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  1. noun A collection of live wild animals on exhibition.
  2. noun An enclosure in which wild animals are kept.
  3. noun A diverse or miscellaneous group.

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  • The nucleus of my menagerie was a pair of mongooses; indeed I got them before the menagerie was built, and till then I kept them in my snuggery in the house. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • The only other great event in the seventy years' history of the menagerie was the death of the Lion Queen in Chatham about 1851. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Colorful saloonkeeper was known for his menagerie (San Diego Union-Tribune) —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • I trembled, lest I should be obliged to enumerate my entire menagerie--cats, dogs, canaries, rabbits, pigs, ducks, geese, hens, turkeys, pigeons, peacocks, cows, and horses Each kind deserves an entire chapter, and how easy it would be to write of cats and their admirers from Cambyses to Warner; of dogs and their friends from Ulysses to Bismarck. —  Adopting an Abandoned Farm
  • 7. This menagerie is managed by my wife. —  French Conversation and Composition
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  1. French ménagerie, from Old French mesnage, ménage; see ménage.

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  1. Formerly also menagery; = Italian menageria, from French ménagerie, a menagerie, from ménage, a household, family: see menage.
 

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