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Meaning of owlery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. An abode of owls.
  2. A pen or enclosure for owls.

Examples

“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?”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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