Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An establishment for the printing of calico or the like.
- noun A printing-office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
printing works
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Examples
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Market: "From this printery, which is in existence today as the oldest
American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894
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"printery," or printing-press, which had cost £50, and was the gift of friends in Holland to the new community in 1638, the name-year of Harvard
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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He could see him setting type in the little printery, or scribbling endless hasty, nervous lines on the much-cluttered desk.
The Mexican 2010
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The book, believed to be his only published collection, was printed by Wright & Baker, of 15 Dixon Street, Sydney, a printery owned by the Communist Party of Australia (CPA).
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Everyone reassured me, though, that the printery handles plenty of these things, and are really helpful, and they'll be able to tell me what is usual.
Today's little hurdle StyleyGeek 2007
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Everyone reassured me, though, that the printery handles plenty of these things, and are really helpful, and they'll be able to tell me what is usual.
Archive 2007-10-01 StyleyGeek 2007
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He could see him setting type in the little printery, or scribbling endless hasty, nervous lines on the much-cluttered desk.
THE MEXICAN 1993
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Having given the Brazilians permission to exercise all kinds of industrial manufacture, he established military and civil tribunals; councils of administration; a prefecture of police; a police force; a treasury; a council of finance; a bank; a royal printery; a powder factory.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Having given the Brazilians permission to exercise all kinds of industrial manufacture, he established military and civil tribunals; councils of administration; a prefecture of police; a police force; a treasury; a council of finance; a bank; a royal printery; a powder factory.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Having given the Brazilians permission to exercise all kinds of industrial manufacture, he established military and civil tribunals; councils of administration; a prefecture of police; a police force; a treasury; a council of finance; a bank; a royal printery; a powder factory.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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