ironmongery
Americannoun
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a hardware store or business.
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the stock of a hardware store; hardware.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ironmongery
First recorded in 1705–15; ironmonger + -y 3
Example Sentences
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And a moment later he is stuck motionless over the ball, as though hypnotized, unable to move the ironmongery to and fro.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 31, 2020
Uppingham School's pavilion has a deep thatched roof and an interior with finely detailed features such as delicate leaf-like plasterwork on the ceiling and ornate ironmongery on the windows.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2018
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin‑nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2017
The museum displays melancholy stone carvings from the priory, and there is a gallery bristling with weaponry and ironmongery.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012
It had been in no sense a light matter to exercise with that ninety-three pounds’ weight of mingled timber and ironmongery.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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