manufactory
Americannoun
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manufactories
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of manufactory
1610–20; obsolete manufact handmade (< Late Latin manūfact ( us ); see manus, fact) + -ory 2
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A floral Iznik ceramic plate inspires its counterpart from the Minton manufactory in Staffordshire, England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
He created the 11 porcelain disks at France’s famed Sèvres manufactory, and they have never been shown publicly before.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Visiting a watch manufactory is a soothing experience during chaotic times, and the painfully slow assembly of these beautiful objects may well fall under the heading of “God’s work.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
The tax likely will top the agenda when Mr. Trump meets Thursday with executives from top U.S. manufactory firms.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2017
At the manufactory at Wisker's Gardens there are fifty gross, or seven thousand two hundred boxes, turned out daily, made from two hundred bundles, which will produce seven hundred and twenty thousand matches.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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 Turkish .government operates power plants, railroads, ports, communications, sugar, salt and tobacco manufactories, oil, steel & coal enterprises ; it dominates shipping and banking.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had seen forges, ironworks, manufactories in her own world; the biggest seemed like a village smithy beside this.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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