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/bərd fˈænsiər/ Listen

noun

Bird fancier n.

One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.

One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.

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Etymology of 'Bird fancier'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bird fancier" Quotes from Famous Books

... grieved and grieved over her, and offered great rewards, but to no avail. In about a year she went to Florida, and one day, going by a bird fancier's that she knew, the man invited her to come in, saying that he had a lot of ...

— What Two Children Did • Charlotte E. Chittenden

... Holborn, and go up Kingsgate Street, where "Poll Sweedlepipe, Barber and Bird Fancier," lived, "next door but one to the celebrated mutton-pie shop, and directly opposite the original cats'-meat warehouse." The immortal Sairey Gamp lodged on the first floor, where doubtless she helped herself from the "chimley-piece" whenever she felt "dispoged." Here also the ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... his best known books, Mr. Darwin brings out a fact which may be illustrated in some such way as this: Suppose a bird fancier collects a flock of tame pigeons distinguished by all the infinite ornamentations of their race. They are of all kinds, of every shade of color, and adorned with every variety of marking. He takes them to an uninhabited island and allows them to fly ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... the bird fancier, was saying to me) "the seasons, months, fortnights, week-ends, holidays, dog-days, Sundays, and yesterdays get so jumbled together in the shuffle that you never know when a year has gone by until you're in the middle ...

— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry