ironmongery

[ ahy-ern-mong-guh-ree, -muhng- ]

noun

, British.

, plural i·ron·mon·ger·ies.

1. a hardware store or business.
2. the stock of a hardware store; hardware.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ironmongery¹

First recorded in 1705–15; ironmonger + -y ³

Example Sentences

Don Mateo's right hand in all these festivities was Severino, of the ironmongery shop.

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Some of the chiefs, enjoining silence, made short harangues, and Cook began the usual distribution of ironmongery and hardware.

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So does the ironmongery —candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up.

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It would purchase muskets and powder and ball, cloth and ironmongery and strong liquors from the white men of the settlements.

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Also, apart from his connection with the Brethren, proprietor of a very paying little ironmongery business.

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