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słoniarnia

//swɔˈɲar.ɲa//
Polishnoun

Definitions

  1. 1.
    building where elephants are exhibited to the public
    • Mojego Ojca, jako byłego pracownika słoniarni, a wówczas opiekuna hipopotamiarni, interesowały zwierzęta DUŻE.

      My father, as a former worker in a building where elephants are kept, and at that time a keeper of hippopotamuses, was interested in LARGE animals.

Etymology

From słoń + -arnia. First attested in 1933.

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