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mendery

mendery noun: the department of a library where damaged books are repaired.

Noun

mendery (plural menderies)

  1. The department of a library where damaged books are repaired.
    • Most research libraries have had or continue to have a "mendery" where repair work takes place.1992, Who, What and Where in Book Repair: Institutional Profiles of the LCCDG, 1992, http://cool.conservation-us.org, February 2, 2009
  2. An establishment in which clothes are repaired.
    • Sara Hyland and May Courtney have decided to try and carry on as a 'Mendery and Dressmaking Establishment.'1995, William Michael Murphy, Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives

Forms of mendery

pluralmenderies

Origin of mendery

From mend + -ery.

Questions about mendery

What does mendery mean?
Mendery means the department of a library where damaged books are repaired.
What part of speech is mendery?
Mendery is a noun.
What is the plural of mendery?
The plural of mendery is menderies.

Words near mendery in the dictionary

  1. mender
  2. Menderes vimba
  3. menderies
  4. menders
  5. Menderson
  6. mendery
  7. Mendes
  8. Mendes da Costa syndrome
  9. Mendesian
  10. Mendesians
  11. mendest

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