The story
- French · borrowed fromfonderie
- English todayfoundry
From French fonderie. By surface analysis, found (“to melt (metals)”) + -ry (“place; process”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
foundry
Today it means: A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc. Full definition →
French fonderie