stampery

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noun

A factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.

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Meanings

nounstampery (plural stamperies)

plural stamperies

  1. historicalA 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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

From stamp + -ery.

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stampery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stampery

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“stampery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stampery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stampery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stampery.

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