manufactories
- plural of manufactory.
Example Sentences
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In August 1865 James wrote a letter to the Congregationalist urging Northerners to come South “to purchase lands, open stores, start manufactories, or newspapers, or schools, or churches” for the betterment of the country.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2017
Hanging in the middle of these drawings are gilded frames holding Bronstein’s watercolors of then-popular porcelain manufactories.
From Architectural Digest • Apr. 16, 2015
Several thousand sightseers and several score actual plane purchasers each day could comfortably inspect 104 plane models, exhibited by 44 oldtime and 16 freshly organized manufactories.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The erection of manufactories in the Colonies tends to lessen their dependence on Great Britain," reads a House of Commons resolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
We hurried past the biggest houses I had ever seen, past shops and taverns and manufactories, past city folk walking like their shoes were on fire.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
