Obs. rare. Also -yere, -ier. [a. F. volière, f. voler to fly.] = VOLARY.

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1638.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 148. His Gardens are … prettily contrivd into grotts, mazes, vollieres, and the like. Ibid., 156. [The] ayery Citizens … returne their thankfull notes in a more swift melodious consort, than if they were in the exactest vollyere in the Vniverse.

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