owlery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abode of owls.
    — 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?
  2. A pen or enclosure for owls.

词形变化

owleries plural

词源

Etymology tree
English owl
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English owlery
From owl + -ery.
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