bootery

They looked at silent, deserted booths where newspapers and books had once been vended; an ancient bootery; a weapon shop (the gunslinger, with a sudden burst of excitement, saw revolvers and rifles; closer inspection showed that their barrels had been filled with lead; he did, however, pick out a bow, which he slung over his back, and a quiver of almost useless, badly weighted arrows); a women's apparel shop.

The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

Hmm - We can wrap your feet so that a pair will stay on long enough to get you to a bootery. \par

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

Printery (for printing-office) appeared very early, and in late years it has been reinforced by many analogues, e. g., beanery, bootery, boozery, toggery.

Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation Henry Louis 1921

Five hundred good reasons allowed, and had long allowed, free bootery to flourish in American seas.

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

Their financial free bootery couldn’t have happened without a huge policy change that Summers and another Obama advisor Robert Rubin engineered during the Clinton years.

Red Flags Flew From the Start on Geithner and Company 2009

I first encountered the machine at Northport Clothiers in Fargo, a men’s “toggery” – there’s a word that’s gone the way of “bootery” – my father frequented for his sartorial needs.

Tuesday, April 28 – The Bleat. 2009