butchery
noun
a slaughterhouse.
butcheries
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pluralof butchery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Bennett-Parker said she researched some of Mused’s 14 other butcheries, calling neighbors and even visiting Philadelphia.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2019
Horse-eating, or hippophagy, became popular in Europe in the 19th century, when famines caused several governments to license horse butcheries.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011
So, with sheeps' innards not exactly standard fare in the butcheries of Brazil, I packed two haggis in my luggage when returning from a Christmas vacation in Scotland, and began planning the big event.
From Time Magazine Archive
We hold back from the leap of despair that would let us see that human society always carries within it the capacity to commit such butcheries and think well of itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
With Apologies to William Blake Tiger, tiger of the seas, King of scarlet butcheries, What infernal hand and eye Planned your dread machinery?
From Songs for a Little House by Christopher Morley
