tannery
Americannoun
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tanneries
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of tannery
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at tan 1, -ery
Example Sentences
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“What they did with the tannery is exactly what they’ve done with the entire country,” said Arcos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
As a counterpoint, when Paul makes the same boast to the hiring manager at the local tannery, she circles “unskilled labor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
While at college in Istanbul, I worked at the tannery, then went to China to learn about leather imports and exports and then to Turkmenistan.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
The Cantonese migrants worked in carpentry and the ship-fitting industry, while the Hakka Chinese worked in the tannery and food business.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
“The tannery owners are buying the land. They pay good prices.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
The city is Morocco’s most widely visited destination, known for its palaces, spice markets, tanneries and Jemaa El Fna, its noisy square full of food vendors and musicians.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Pittards, based in Yeovil, Somerset, was founded in 1826 and has tanneries in Ethiopia.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2023
The town has many tanneries, a fact that may account for his use of the syllable tan.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
The analysis took a look at the last links of the long, complicated supply chain for leather goods — tanneries, leather processors, and manufacturers.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2021
When we were out past the tanneries onto the main road the troops, the motor trucks, the horse-drawn carts and the guns were in one wide slow-moving column.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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