(n.) A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alcor has a reputation for celebrity clients, while KrioRus offers budget service, probably due to its communal approach to storage, with bodies sharing tanks with a menagerie of 20 or so pets (cats, dogs, birds) that owners have paid to preserve.
(2) Kids have to populate a zoo with colourful animals by folding them (virtually) together following on-screen prompts, then keep the menagerie occupied with items.
(3) Carroll takes on two fellow Britons in the best director category – Michael Grandage for The Cripple of Inishmaan and John Tiffany for The Glass Menagerie.
(4) Six dogs, six cats, rabbits and white rats make up a menagerie of slobbering, purring affection, punctuated by squawks from the geese as they flee the Rottweiler.
(5) It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
(6) Twelfth Night leads the field in the drama categories alongside John Tiffany's The Glass Menagerie, which also has seven.
(7) Start a menagerie What else would you want to do in your own garden but create your own zoo?
(8) Our previous visits to these vents with remotely operated vehicles have already yielded a menagerie of new deep-sea species.
(9) But its wild menagerie should be enough to ensure a colourful, controversial edition of the world's oldest film festival.
(10) (“Gosh,” murmurs Roy, as he gazes at a menagerie of living puppets and dolls, “you’ve really got nice toys here.”) It’s as children that we perhaps learn to warm to them, for all their chilling potentiality for violence.
(11) All she wanted was a home for herself and her husband, and her growing menagerie of rescue animals.
(12) Life During Wartime revisits this menagerie 10 years on.
(13) James, who kept a menagerie of exotic animals here and put his need to build huge towers down to “pure megalomania”, never completed his tropical shrine to surrealism but his fantasy realm remains a joy to explore.
(14) If that payroll shrinks, fears will grow that the building could symbolise the first of many white elephants in a new menagerie.
(15) The campaign reportedly involved a menagerie of contractors: Booz Allen Hamilton, a billion-dollar intelligence industry player and Snowden's former employer; Palantir , a PayPal-inspired and -funded outfit that sells "data-mining and analysis software that maps out human social networks for counterintelligence purposes"; and HBGary Federal , an aspirant consultancy in the intelligence sector.
(16) There, you will find not only a fascinating video of Big Dog in action, but also confirmation that its maker has a menagerie of mechanical beasts, some of them humanoid in form, others resembling predatory animals.
(17) The others on the shortlist were Carol Birch for her much-admired Jamrach's Menagerie , a historical high seas adventure; two Canadian writers - Patrick deWitt for The Sisters Brothers , a picaresque western, and Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues , which mixes the raw beauty of jazz and the terror of Nazism; and two debut novels – Stephen Kelman for Pigeon English , which tells the story of a Ghanaian boy who turns detective on a south London housing estate; and AD Miller for Snowdrops , a Moscow-set tale of corruption and moral decline.
(18) Over only a few decades of bioscience, our "new normal" could be closer to that menagerie of mutants and cyborgs that you see in the average Star Trek street scene than it might be to the muttonchopped visitors to the Crystal Palace.
(19) Even accepting that culling animals is routine in modern zookeeping, given the conflict between cage size and the commercial requirement for replacement babies, the existence of Gill’s menagerie, with its deprivation and mortality, is hard to square with, say, British donkey sanctuaries.
(20) But surely there could be nothing more apt: a mythical beast to join the capital's long lost menageries – like the medieval Barbary lions of the Tower of London, or the elephants and zebras of the Exeter Exchange on the Strand in the 18th century.
Tapestry
Definition:
(n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
(v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(2) The company launched in 1995 with an idea for a range of “colonial-inspired” tapestry bags, designed by Cox and sold by Liberty, Harrods and the General Trading Company.
(3) There was a lift to the top floor to see the remaining tapestry, but even here, life was not straightforward.
(4) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
(5) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(6) This is at once a work of advocacy, rhetoric and literature, a vital thread in the tapestry of American prose.
(7) The first illustrates the impact of an unusual exposure source experienced by a female art conservator while restoring an antique Peruvian tapestry from the Chancay Period (A.D. 1000-1500).
(8) She has a bedroom symbolising each of her marriages, with huge tapestries detailing the humorous, intricate life Grayson has conceived for her, and an entrance hall described pretty accurately as a chapel space.
(9) I think we need a full explanation of that without delay.” Johnson had earlier described the correspondence between Serco CEO Rupert Soames and the prime minister, which took place while Cameron’s negotiations over a new EU deal were still ongoing, as “the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux tapestry”, adding: “It makes us look like a banana republic.” Elsewhere on Tuesday, Cameron suggested in a speech that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis , was probably in favour of Britain leaving the EU.
(10) It’s about a slow unfolding of this tapestry that we’ve woven.
(11) The American psychiatrists' handbook DSM-5 goes further in this direction than ever, turning life's rich tapestry of oddballs into a grid of disorders.
(12) The tapestries would frame the space and create a sort of open-air building, though members of the Eisenhower family have gone so far to protest that the metal scrims remind them of Communist imagery or chain-link fences at a Nazi concentration camp.
(13) If you want an analogy, all the colours are present right across the tapestry.
(14) So we spoke in her bedroom, where she sat in pristine nightgown and shawl, in a rocking chair by the gold-curtained window, surrounded by a basket of tapestry wool (she was stitching a complex pattern for an evening bag), a walker, and a half-read Arnold Bennett novel, preparation for her book club – "Do you know, he's surprisingly good."
(15) At the moment, however, the six tapestries are on show at Temple Newsam House in Yorkshire, a Tudor-Jacobean mansion owned by Leeds city council, one and a half miles from the nearest train station and accessible by bus only in the summer months.
(16) It is inequality that is disfiguring the housing market, with house prices out of reach for first-time buyers as waiting lists for social housing extend to 1.7 million, and a new class of multi-millionaire buy-to-let landlords have become an unwelcome part of the social tapestry.
(17) He features in many of Perry’s works, from his first tapestry Vote Alan Measles for God (2008), in which the red, roaring teddy brandishes a suicide-belt atop the Twin Towers, to an intricate other-worldly shrine in which Alan Measles sits likes a Hindu deity.
(18) They were men and women; young and old; black, white, Latino, Asian, and Native American – woven together like a great American tapestry, sharing in the dream that our Nation would one day make real the promise of liberty, equality, and justice for all.
(19) The arrest of the kingpin known as Z-40 is the first high profile takedown of a drug baron since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in December with Mexico in the midst of a complex tapestry of cartel turf wars.
(20) Three stainless steel tapestries depicting the Kansas landscape of Ike’s boyhood home were part of Gehry’s original design.