Meanings
plural swanneries
- A place where swans are bred.
For years a large swannery existed among the islands, and the “king's swanner” used to come down and hold his periodical courts.
1858, Walter White, chapter 6, in A Month In Yorkshire, page 402 more examples
At Abbotsbury, in Dorsetshire, there was formerly a noble swannery, the property of the Earl of Ilchester, where six or seven hundred were kept...
1845, S. G. Goodrich, Illustrative Anecdotes Of The Animal Kingdom, page 197The swannery, I may say, was my idea; I said once in his hearing that it gave a baronial air to an estate; you see I knew a man who had got a lot of surplus swan stock for sale.
1913, Saki, chapter 7, in When William Came
Origin
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