Meaning of owlery | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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?”

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