Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where pheasants are bred, reared, and kept.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A place for keeping and rearing
pheasants .
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Examples
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O, tis a noble sight to whitniss that of an appy pheasantry!
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O, tis a noble sight to whitniss that of an appy pheasantry!
Burlesques 2006
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For they sneered at the trout, calling them "char," patronised the rather scanty pheasantry, commented on the kennels, stables, and gardens in a manner that brought the red into Portlaw's face and left him silent while luncheon lasted.
The Firing Line 1899
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Sometimes he cast a leaden eye outdoors when his dogs were exercised from the kennel; rarely, and always unwillingly, he followed Malcourt to the hatchery to watch the stripping, or to the exotic pheasantry to inspect the breeding of birds entirely out of place in such a climate.
The Firing Line 1899
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The pheasantry should be placed on high, well-drained ground with a southern exposure, where the soil is good enough to raise clover, oats, and barley.
Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896
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O, tis a noble sight to whitniss that of an appy pheasantry!
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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The poultry-yard, stables, and cow-shed, relegated to the buildings near the pheasantry and hidden by clumps of trees, instead of afflicting the eye with their foul details, now blended those soft murmurs and cooings and the sound of flapping wings, which are among the most delightful accompaniments of Nature's eternal harmony, with the peculiar rustling sounds of the forest.
Sons of the Soil Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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A group of trees formed a screen, behind which the kennels, an old falconry, a pheasantry, and the quarters of the huntsmen were falling into ruins, after being in their day the wonder and admiration of Burgundy.
Sons of the Soil Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Courtecuisse, to avoid having to walk from the pavilion to the pheasantry, had turned the large hall of the central building into a stable, -- a hall with panelled ceiling, and in the centre of each panel the arms of all the various possessors of Les Aigues!
Sons of the Soil Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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She leads the way into a little conservatory, and a little pinery, and a little grapery, and a little aviary, and a little pheasantry, and a little dairy for show, and
The Absentee Maria Edgeworth 1808
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