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English
Etymology
From owl + -ery.
Noun
owlery (plural owleries)
- (zoology) An abode of owls.
1850 April 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. III. Downing Street.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, page 93:Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M‘Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?
- A pen or enclosure for owls.
Synonyms
(enclosure) owldome
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