Meanings
plural roasteries · alternative roasterie
- A place where meat, coffee, etc. is roasted.
“Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.
2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business1 more example
Mr. Peet was born in 1920 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, where he learned the coffee trade while cleaning machinery and running errands at his father’s small coffee roastery.
2007 September 3, Carolyn Marshall, “Alfred H. Peet, 87, Dies; Leader of a Coffee Revolution”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From roast + -ery. Doublet of rosticceria and rotisserie.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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