a place for preserving anything; as a greenhouse for exotic plants, an ice-house, &c.

Music (from the Italian conservatorio), is applied to a school for training boys and girls to the musical profession. At one time conservatories were numerous and flourishing at Venice and Naples; but they began to decline in the last century, and are now almost extinct in Italy, except at Milan and Bologna. The French have their Paris Conservatoire; and in Germany there are several excellent schools of the same kind. The only one in Great Britain is the London Royal Academy of Music.