Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building in which birds are kept; an aviary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An aviary; a poultry house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
aviary ; apoultry house.
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Turtle-doves were fattened in large numbers for the market on wheat and millet, the latter being moistened with sweet wine; but thrushes were chiefly in request, and Varro mentions one ornithon from which no less than five thousand of these birds were sold for the table in one season.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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