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Rookery
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
(2):
(n.) A brothel.
(3):
(n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
(4):
(n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
(5):
(n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rookery'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/rookery.html. 1828.