dreamery en · NOUN
Etymology
From dream + -ery.
Meanings
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Dreaming or daydreaming (reverie); any of the thoughts or fancies therein.
There's ever yearning on the windlass hill, A voice is ever grieving by the sea; The music here, when all the winds are still, Is but the murmured sweet of dreamery. In it are blisses of the faint wild breath Of odors sighed upon the shadows old; It dies upon itself, the gentle death Of sunsets giving to the dark their gold.
1899 May 14, John Vance Cheney, “The music of the wood”, in Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music, volume 16, number 1, page 63:Near-synonym: dreams
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A place suited for dreaming.
Just slip into my hallway And up a winding stair If you would find my dreamery,— There's sunshine everywhere. And rows and rows of windows That slide into the wall Tempt breezes to my dreamery, And fairies, one and all. My father planned it for me, His love's reflected there, And dreams from out my dreamery Should come true anywhere. He said that dreams would blossom, And bear the fruit of love, If one who owned a dreamery— Had faith and worked above. And since I've planted dream seeds, Till harvest I must stay, And work there in my dreamery, With might and main each day. Then, when my plants have blossomed, And borne their fruit so fair, I'll garner, in my dreamery, Both fruit and patience rare.
1929 November 14, Mabel E. Palmer, “My dreamery”, in International Poetry Magazine, volume 7, number 4, page 20:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dreameries | Number=Plur | lexicographic |