mousery

English

Etymology

mouse + -ery

Noun

mousery (plural mouseries)

  1. (rare) A place where mice are kept and bred.
    • 1965, George Washington Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Univ. Press, p. 228 (Google preview):
      There was indeed a mousery of vast proportions, far from general view on an upper floor. . . . A member of the Institute's research staff, unaware of its existence and unexpectedly admitted, found himself in a city of mice, thousands of them, elaborately housed and cared for.

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