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drury

drury noun: love, especially sexual love; courtship, sex.

Noun

drury

  1. (obsolete) Love, especially sexual love; courtship, sex.
  2. (obsolete) A love token or keepsake, a physical object symbolic of a loving relationship.
  3. (obsolete) A beloved person; a sweetheart.
  4. (obsolete) A beloved thing; a treasure.
    • It is as derworth a drewery · as dere god hym-seluen.c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I

Proper noun capitalized: Drury

Drury

  1. A surname.
  2. A settlement in Buckley community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2964).
  3. A town south of Auckland, New Zealand.
  4. An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas, United States.
  5. A village in the town of Florida, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.

Forms of drury

alternative formdruery
alternative formdrewery

Origin of drury

From Old French druerie, droerie (“love, friendship”) et al., from dru (“friend”).

Phrases with drury

Questions about drury

What does drury mean?
Drury means love, especially sexual love; courtship, sex.
What part of speech is drury?
Drury can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near drury in the dictionary

  1. drupes
  2. drupetum
  3. druplet
  4. druplets
  5. drupose
  6. drury
  7. Drury Lane vestal
  8. Drury Lane vestals
  9. druse
  10. drused
  11. drusen

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