VOLLIERE NOUN a large bird cage; an aviary ...1638 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from French volière (aviary), from voler (to fly) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1638 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...he has here a pretty Carvan-sraw and Summer houses for his owne delight, wherein are five neat roomes curiously painted in Imagery and imbost with gold; his Gardens are also sweet and prettily contrivd into grotts, mazes, vollieres, and the like, equall to that of Aladeul' at Caramit for his Assassinates; but nasty and deformed if compard with Paradize..." From: Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique Describing Especially the Two Famous Empires, the Persian, and the Great Mogull - Thomas Herbert
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