Etymology
French ménagerie, derived from ménager to keep house, ménage household. Housekeeping used to include taking care of domestic animals.
Noun
menagerie
A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept
1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus managerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.
A diverse or miscellaneous group
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