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Webster 1913 Edition
Rookery
Rook′er-y
,Noun.
pl.
Rookeries
. 1.
The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
Tennyson.
2.
A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
3.
The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
4.
A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
5.
A brothel.
[Low]
Webster 1828 Edition
Rookery
ROOK'ERY
, n.1.
A nursery of rooks.2.
In low language, a brothel.Definition 2024
rookery
rookery
English
Noun
rookery (plural rookeries)
- A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
- A crowded tenement.
- (Britain) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
- 1980, Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: life in an East End tenement block, 1887-1920, page 128:
- The Flower and Dean St rookery had been home to many of those who lived at least partly by street crime.
- 1995, Cyrille Fijnaut, Changes in Society, Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe:
- These rookeries sustained criminal social systems that provided schooling in crime for the young and newcomers.
- 1998, Stephen Inwood; Roy Porter, A History of London, page 522:
- In the Victorian imagination, crime and the criminal class were always associated with rookeries, the dense slum areas in which criminals were said to live.
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Translations
a colony of breeding birds or other animals
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