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stampery

stampery noun: a factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.

Noun

stampery (plural stamperies)

  1. (historical) A factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.
    • He said the people in the stamperies and many others were armed with sticks to support them.1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 90
    • In this Quarter, there are two stamperies, which employ about 55 men in the manufacture, as many boys, 30 women, and about 30 common labourers […].1797, Frederick Morton Eden, The State of the Poor

Forms of stampery

pluralstamperies

Origin of stampery

From stamp + -ery.

Questions about stampery

What does stampery mean?
Stampery means a factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.
What part of speech is stampery?
Stampery is a noun.
What is the plural of stampery?
The plural of stampery is stamperies.

Words near stampery in the dictionary

  1. stampees
  2. stamper
  3. stamperies
  4. Stamperland
  5. stampers
  6. stampery
  7. stampest
  8. stampeth
  9. Stampian
  10. stampic
  11. stamping

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