cheesemongery

Noun

cheesemongery (countable and uncountable, plural cheesemongeries)

1. Cheese and/or butter sold by a cheesemonger.
   • She had never been into these crowded streets alone before, and, dazzled by the glittering shop-windows, and confused by the headlong throng and seemingly interminable confusion of their traffic, got herself into continual scrapes by running against the different people she met, receiving such...1857, Leitch Ritchie, The New Shilling, page 142
   • I observe spices, sugar, all sorts of groceries, all sorts of cheesemongery, all sorts of tinned provisions1888, William Clark Russell, A Voyage to the Cape, page 66
2. The building where a cheesemonger sells dairy goods.
   • Here are two tripe-shops, a few considerable cheesemongeries, and one medicinal herb-shop.1815, The Epicure's Almanack; Or Calendar of Good Living
   • We stretched the cord across pine forests [ocotales] up to the old cheesemongery of Tranquilino, at a distance of 30 cords, where we erected a stone marker.1994, E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood, International Law Reports - Volume 97, →ISBN, page 451
3. The work of a cheesemonger; the selling of cheese.
   • WANTED an Apprentice in the Grocery and Cheesemongery business, a Youth of 16 years of age of good disposition, active, and wishing to oblige, and willing to attend the regulation of a Dissenting family, on week and sabbath days;1821, The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, page 132
   • Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department; Mrs. Tuggs to the cheesemongery; and Miss Tuggs to her education.1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, page 159