| 单词 | swannery |
| 释义 | swannery|ˈswɒnərɪ| Also 8 swanery. [f. as swanner: see -ery. Cf. MDu. zwaenerie right to keep swans.] †a. The keeping of swans (?). b. A place where swans are kept and reared.
1570in Archaeologia (1812) XVI. 159 The true Copy of an old Paper, touching the Swannery found among my Father's Books, and intituled a Copy of the Ordinances for Swans, &c. 1754Pococke Trav. (Camden) 95 At the swanery..the walls are built of a stone full of shells. 1774Hutchins Hist. Dorset I. 538/1 A little W. of the town [sc. Abbotsbury] is a noble swannery, much visited by strangers. 1888Blackw. Mag. Dec. 857/2 How many years previous to that time the abbots..had ‘enjoyed’ the privilege of maintaining a swannery is not recorded. |
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