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a zoo with a personal pronoun attached — someone's exotic pets, formally arranged.
means a collection of wild or exotic animals kept and displayed, especially by a private owner or royal household.
from from french menagerie, rooted in menage meaning household management — literally the domestic art of keeping things, extended to keeping lions instead of just chickens.
versailles originlouis xiv built one to flex on visiting diplomats
tower of londonhoused lions and a polar bear for 600 years
word driftonce meant farm animal management, not exotic beasts
for instance
tower of london menagerie — royal collection from 1200s, closed 1835, animals moved to london zoo
versailles menagerie — louis xiv's 1664 showpiece, designed by le vau himself
william randolph hearst's zoo — private lions and tigers roamed his california ranch in the 1920s