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Meaning of kennelry | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Synonym of kennel (place).
    uncommon
  2. Synonym of kennel (collective).
    rare

Examples

“Pursuing our homeward journey four or five miles we descried a long row of cabins after the style of a Mormon’s wife kennelry. Another lady of the party of persuasive eloquence volunteered to assist in imploring of the inmates shelter for the night. But the queen of the cabins had only one bed which she could place at our service, and was not at all prepared to take care of us anyway.”
““How about this? ‘Owner going abroad wishes to sell wire-haired terrier-breeding kennelry.’” […] She read out the advertisement. The Frampton Kennelries were five miles from Horsham.”
“A kennelry (if I may be permitted to coin so convenient a term) is inviting Coronation visitors and others to call and see the Barkless Basenjis.”
“Especially hard-hit will be the residents of Danton Pinch, whose village will be wiped off the map, while Danton Lane kennelry will have to go also.”
“The descendants of these fearsome canines finally became domesticated in late 1646 GUE. They are, however, still quite ferocious and not to be trifled with because they’ve been cross-bred with the best guard dogs from the Major Pie R. Squared Kennelry.”
“He is convinced that the aristocracy stands in the way of the development of the rights of man, and he says so unflinchingly, though he be howled at as an ill-mannered demagogue by the whole kennelry of gorged aristocracy, and of their fawning minions.”
“Frank was fourteen years old and had both shepherd and bulldog blood in his veins. He probably found a quiet satisfaction in the fact that his successor at the courthouse proved incompetent and lasted not over a year. In the annals of kennelry Frank should belong to the ages.”
“He advises they attempted to purloin the entire hennery and kennelry, is that right? Any way there was a classical and keenly contested debate at the station relative to who really “own dem ’ar chickens and dat ’ar dog” in which Mr. McGraw was[,] of course, the winner.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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