grapery

American  

[grey-puh-ree] / ˈgreɪ pə ri /

noun

graperies plural

1. a building where grapes are grown.

2. a vineyard.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• graperies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of grapery

First recorded in 1805–15; grape + -ery

Example Sentences

The pipes being also used to heat a grapery near by on a higher level, it was necessary to carry them thus.

From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)

Here M. Dutilleul's domain ended, but he was kind enough to express a willingness to conduct our friends through the orangery and grapery.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne

The grapery is to be heated by four rows of pipes, the object being to force early.

From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)

Though called a grapery, vines of many different kinds twined over the trellis-work, while the grapevines were chiefly over an arbor at the end.

From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah

The governor has a grapery, and presented us with some fine bunches of grapes.

From Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California by Anderson, Mary E. (Mary Evarts)