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plural menageries
A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos. examples
The enclosure where they are kept. quotations examples
In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.
1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
A diverse or miscellaneous group. examples
(obsolete, slang) The orchestra of a theatre.