dreamery

Noun

dreamery (plural dreameries)

1. Dreaming or daydreaming (reverie); any of the thoughts or fancies therein.
   • Near-synonym: dreams
   • There's ever yearning on the windlass hill,
     A voice is ever grieving by the sea;
     The music here, when all the winds are still,
     Is but the murmured sweet of dreamery.
     In it are blisses of the faint wild breath
     Of odors sighed upon the shadows old;
     It dies upon itself, the gentle death
     Of sunsets...1899 May, John Vance Cheney, “The music of the wood”, in Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music, volume 16, number 1, page 63

   Synonyms:

   dream

2. A place suited for dreaming.
   • Just slip into my hallway
     And up a winding stair
     If you would find my dreamery,—
     There's sunshine everywhere.
     And rows and rows of windows
     That slide into the wall
     Tempt breezes to my dreamery,
     And fairies, one and all.
     My father planned it for me,
     His love's reflected there,
     And dreams from out my...1929 November, Mabel E. Palmer, “My dreamery”, in International Poetry Magazine, volume 7, number 4, page 20