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Enclosures for birds
Answer for the clue "Enclosures for birds ", 8 letters:
aviaries
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Word definitions for aviaries in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aviary \A"vi*a*ry\, n.; pl. Aviaries . [L. aviarium, fr. aviarius pertaining to birds, fr. avis bird, akin to Gr, ?, Skr. vi.] A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house. Lincolnshire may be termed the aviary ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of aviary English)
Usage examples of aviaries.
To dissipate my grief she immediately led me to the grove where the young girls of the harem were playing at hide-and-seek amid the golden aviaries of which the place was full.
In the middle of the room is a fountain throwing up streams of perfumed water, and surrounded by golden aviaries containing birds of all sizes and nations.
Dead song-birds were easier to spot and Sezarre went straight to the steward who soon had a lad picking the sad little corpses from the floor of the aviaries belonging to Laio and Mahli.
As we made repeated circuits of the gardens, fountains and aviaries, there were no more deaths among the hurriedly replaced birds and fish, brought from Talagrin knows where by a succession of shocked-looking islanders.
They swept past the towers of the aviaries and onward toward the Sanctuary.
It was she who scurried on her light, feline feet through the pathways beneath the orange trees and the bird aviaries, overturning the kettles of soup, crying out to the poor and the lame and the hopeless that they were free, that no one imprisoned them now.