Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… well-ventilated dens in order to receive visitors. A sensitivity to odour was valued as an expression of gentility, refinement, politeness and good manners. The Georgian domestic obsession with comfort was equally applied to menageries …
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