Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
volery .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
volery .
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- noun Alternative form of
volery .
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- noun a building where birds are kept
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Examples
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AVIARY (from Lat. _avis_, a bird), called by older writers "volary," a structure in which birds are kept in a state of captivity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Besides, this volary was so exceedingly neat, that, considering its extent, one would think there could not be less than an hundred persons to keep it so clean as it was; but all this while not one soul appeared, either here or in the gardens where I had been, and yet I could not perceive a weed or any superfluous thing there.
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I opened the third door, where I found a large volary, paved with marble of several fine colours that were not common.
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Odo listened attentively, but without betraying any great surprise; and the Bishop, evidently reassured by his composure, suggested that, the heat of the day having declined, they should visit the new Indian pheasants in his volary.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 23: July/August 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jul/Aug 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663
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