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English
Etymology
From stamp + -ery.
Noun
stampery (plural stamperies)
- (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 […] .