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Cliff dwelling, perhaps
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aerie
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Word definitions for aerie in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"eagle's nest," 1580s (attested in Anglo-Latin from early 13c.), from Old French aire "nest," Medieval Latin area "nest of a bird of prey" (12c.), perhaps from Latin area "level ground, garden bed" [Littré], though some doubt this [Klein]. Another theory ...
Usage examples of aerie.
She scavenged four atropine autoinjectors out of four kits and put the empty foam cases and the leftover 2-PAM injectors in the Aerie.
No doubt it would make a tasty meal for the birdlings left in some lofty aerie.
There was a tour of the aerie to examine the celebrated Ninar Foan silvers.
Eleven birds sat on the sunward side of the aerie, all hooded and still.
Her scent, of soap and perfume, stood out against the earthier odors of the Aerie and made him think of other days, and nights.
The new ship hovered above them in Spacedock, as comfortable as an eagle in its aerie, being tended, coddled, and preened by devoted minions in extravehicular suits, none quite as consumed with wonder as the proud captain himself.
Standing in the high aerie, overlooking the drab and pinkish countryside, the duke pointed out the local thermals and upturns, warned of downdrafts, and suggested a route to the higher, sun-bright locales with a good chance for goats, the most sporting of quarry.
For if Jazz had wondered at the seismic or corrosive forces of nature which had created the mountains, what was he to make of the spindly towers of mist-wreathed rock standing to the east: fantastically carven, mile-high aeries that soared like alien sky-scrapers up from the boulder plain in the shadow of the rearing mountains?
Dramal Doombody, and so it has to be fairly representative of all the aeries, or castles if you wish, where they sit atop those fantastic stacks.
The stacks are real, and since time immemorial the Wamphyri have built their aeries on them.
The aeries have their catchment areas, inward-sloping skins on all levels, channelling rain water into great barrels with overflow systems into other barrels.
Seekers in the aeries about the Hell Plains knew the moment their emissaries had failed.
The ones who represented those and the aeries scattered about the continent argued with one another in the decaying citadel of Azran.
XXI The Seekers in the aeries about the Hell Plains knew the moment their emissaries had failed.
But just as they reached the entrance to the hall, Jaryd remembered the question that had come to him the night before as Baden, Trahn, and he sat in the Aerie.