printery

American  

[prin-tuh-ree] / ˈprɪn tə ri /

noun

• printeries
  plural

1. (formerly) an establishment for typographic printing.

2. an establishment where printing, as of books or newspapers, etc., is done.

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printery British  

/ ˈprɪntərɪ /

noun

1. an establishment in which printing is carried out

2. an establishment in which fabrics are printed

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• printeries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of printery

First recorded in 1630–40; print + -ery

Example Sentences

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printery

Now that the government has built a new printery and a $3,200,000 bitumen plant, the board has to rush construction of the first schools so men can be trained to staff them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as of old she had found excuses for going up to the trembling printery, so now she felt that somehow she must seek him out.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

From the ceiling of the drying room in this printery of olden times were hanging some hundreds of stencils bearing different patterns.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

So they took the elevated to Seventy-sixth Street and walked through the old neighborhood to the printery.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

Time and again she became convinced that he had ceased to love her, that he was more concerned over his burnt printery.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim