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Definition of Swanneries
1. swannery [n] - See also: swannery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swanneries
Literary usage of Swanneries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1880)
"It is stated that 1400 of the birds are on the Fleet, and both the swanneries
are steadily increasing in numbers. The Weymouth swannery was started in 1873, ..."
2. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine by Edward Hungerford Goddard (1884)
"It is stated that fourteen hundred birds are on the Fleet, and both the swanneries
are steadily increasing in numbers. The Weymouth swannery was started in ..."
3. The Pet Book by Anna Botsford Comstock (1914)
"SWANS VO properly appreciate swans we should have lived in the time of Queen
Elizabeth, for that period there were 900 swanneries in England; and each owner ..."
4. Carlyles' Works by Thomas Carlyle (1884)
"They are our inspired speakers and seers, the light of the world; who are to
deliver the world from its swanneries, its superstitions (political or other); ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"At the present time but few swanneries remain, but in some places cygnets are
carefully raised and bred for the market and a few of these birds are kept for ..."
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