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English
Noun
tournery (plural tourneries)
- (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of turnery (“work turned on a lathe”)..
1644 November 1 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, , 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, , published 1819, →OCLC:In another roome are such rare tourneries in ivory as are not to be described for their curiosity
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