saddlery
Americannoun
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saddleries
plural
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saddles, harnesses, and other equipment for horses.
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the work, business, or shop of a saddler.
noun
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saddles, harness, and other leather equipment for horses collectively
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the business, work, or place of work of a saddler
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of saddlery
First recorded in 1400–50, saddlery is from the late Middle English word sadelerie. See saddler, -y 3
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Leather goods and saddlery accounted for 44% of the brand’s revenue in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
"Ultimately, technology emerging from Mongolia has, through a domino effect, ended up shaping the horse culture that we have in America today, especially our traditions of saddlery and stirrups," Taylor said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023
All divisions clocked double-digit growth, including the leather goods and saddlery activity, which includes its famed Birkin and Kelly handbags and accounts for nearly half of annual sales at Hermes, up 15.8%.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2022
Season after season, she makes clothes suitable for the clientele of a brand that started in 1837 as a saddlery and remains a purveyor of goods for a traditional carriage trade.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
In this amiable temper he passed the famous saddlery shop.
From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward franchised sprawl, is a kind of communal hitching post.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Pittsburg and the counties of Westmoreland and Alleghany, there are 26 saddleries; and 41 tanneries, 64 brick yards, and 11 potteries.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
To right and left are English farrieries, English saddleries, and English bars and taverns too.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
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