English Dictionary

apery

noun

A place where apes are kept. / The practice of aping; an apish action.

The zoo has a separate section for apery.

意味（1）

A place where apes are kept.

If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.

意味（2）

The practice of aping; an apish action.

Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.