stamperyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From stamp +‎ -ery.

名詞

stampery (複数形 stamperies)

1. (now historical) A factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 90:

     He said the people in the stamperies and many others were armed with sticks to support them.

   • 1797, Frederick Morton Eden, The State of the Poor:

     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 […] .