owlery
English
Etymology
Noun
owlery (plural owleries)
- (zoology) An abode or a haunt of owls.
- Thomas Carlyle
- 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 […]
- Thomas Carlyle
Translations
an abode or a haunt of owls
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References
- “owlery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.