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Menagerie

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a collection of wild animals kept for show or exhibition. The word is particularly applied to travelling exhibitions of wild animals, attached to a circus or other show, "zoological gardens"(q.v.) being the term generally applied to large stationary and permanent exhibitions, arranged on a scientific system. The French menagerie (from menage, O. Fr. mesnage, Lat. mansionaticum, mansio, house, cf. "manage") originally meant the administration of a household or farm, with special reference to the live stock.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Menagerie'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​m/menagerie.html. 1910.
 
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