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stampery en · NOUN

Etymology

From stamp + -ery.

Meanings

1. (historical) A factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.
   • He said the people in the stamperies and many others were armed with sticks to support them. 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 90
   • In this Quarter, there are two stamperies, which employ about 55 men in the manufacture, as many boys, 30 women, and about 30 common labourers […]. 1797, Frederick Morton Eden, The State of the Poor:

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