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  • noun Plural form of masonry.

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Examples

  • The bags were originally intended for construction companies and masonries.

    For Entrepreneurs, Disaster Brings Eureka Sarah E. Needleman 2011

  • Samuel Butler, for the notebook of housewives, may be summarized as a pyramid, based upon toast, whereof the chief masonries are a flake of bacon, an egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of red peppers; the whole dribbled with a warm pink sauce of which the inventor retains the secret.

    The Haunted Bookshop 1918

  • An Egg Samuel Butler, for the notebook of housewives, may be summarized as a pyramid, based upon toast, whereof the chief masonries are a flake of bacon, an egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of red peppers; the whole dribbled with a warm pink sauce of which the inventor retains the secret.

    The Haunted Bookshop 1918

  • Ealer would not be convinced; he said a man could learn how to correctly handle the subtleties and mysteries and free-masonries of any trade by careful reading and studying.

    Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

  • I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.

    Salut au Monde 1900

  • Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • The speaker was a man named Jack Stagg, with whom Jude had formerly worked in repairing the college masonries; Tinker Taylor was seen to be standing near.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • Passing out into the streets on this errand he found that the colleges had treacherously changed their sympathetic countenances: some were pompous; some had put on the look of family vaults above ground; something barbaric loomed in the masonries of all.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • The speaker was a man named Jack Stagg, with whom Jude had formerly worked in repairing the college masonries; Tinker Taylor was seen to be standing near.

    Jude the Obscure 1894

  • Passing out into the streets on this errand he found that the colleges had treacherously changed their sympathetic countenances: some were pompous; some had put on the look of family vaults above ground; something barbaric loomed in the masonries of all.

    Jude the Obscure 1894

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