mangery

M3A1N1G2E1R1Y4

noun

A feast; a banquet.

OriginMiddle English mangerie ← Old French mangerie →
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Meanings

nounmangery (plural mangeries)

plural mangeries

  1. obsoleteA feast; a banquet.

    Hollanders, Zelanders, Scots, French, Weſterne men, Northren men, beſides all the hundreds and wapentakes nine miles compaſſe, fetch the beſt of their viands and mangery from her market.

    1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6

Origin

  1. Old Frenchmangerie“eating”
  2. Middle Englishmangerie
  3. Englishmangery

From Middle English mangerie, from Old French mangerie (“eating”).

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APA

mangery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mangery

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“mangery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mangery. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mangery,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mangery.

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