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

See Examples For:

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

Those days followed one another with ever-deepening gloom, in which the trembling printery and all the human beings that were part of it seemed steeped in a growing twilight.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

Slandering David Henkel.—What the Henkels, as early as 1809, had taught on the Lord's Supper, appears from a pamphlet published in that year at New Market, in the printery of Henkel.

From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

When the lad was fourteen years old, we find him setting type in his father's printery.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert

And then one day she had gone to the printery and met a man, who was homely, rough, simple, and, in spite of her revulsion from these qualities, was immensely drawn to him.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James