volery

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  1. A large bird-cage or inclosure in which the birds have room to fly. I thought thee then our Orpheus, that wouldst try, Like him, to make the air one volary. B. Jonson, Underwoods, xvi. Sitting moping like three or four melancholy Birds in a spacious Vollary. Etherege, Man of Mode, v. Having seene the roomes, we went to y volary, w has a cupola in the middle of it, greate trees and bushes, it being full of birds, who drank at two fountaines. Evelyn, Diary, March 1, 1644.
  2. The birds confined in such an inclosure; a flight or flock of birds. An old boy, at his first appearance, … is sure to draw on him the eyes and chirping of the whole town volery, amongst which there will not be wanting some birds of prey. Locke, Education, § 94.

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  1. Also volary, vollary; from Old French voliere, a cage, coop, dovecote, Frenchvolière, an aviary, also Old French volier, a large cage or aviary; cf. voleric, “a place over the stage which we called the heaven” (Cotgrave), i. e. ‘place of flying’; from voler, fly, from Latin volare, fly: see volant.
 

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