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plural manufactories
(archaic) A manufacturing process; a particular industry or part of an industry. quotations
The manufactory of sugar is generally in German hands.
1873, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, page 698
(archaic) A plant where something is manufactured; a factory. quotations
Sᴍᴀʟᴛ from the King of France's porcelain manufactory at Sevres fused into a mass, and resigned its colour.
1817, The Philosophical Magazine and Journal, journal, Jan 1817
We have just changed horses at Birmingham where I was two years ago and we visited the manufactories which are very curious.
1832, Queen Victoria, journal, 2 Aug 1832
The furnaces of the manufactory must be fed.
2001, Ian Irvine, Geomancer: A Tale of The Three Worlds (The Well of Echoes; 1), London: Orbit, published 2002, page 8
Bradshaw is always ready to talk 'manufactories', and here he confides that the town [Basingstoke] "carried on a rather considerable business in druggets, which has since fallen off".
2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 57
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(obsolete) Relating to manufacture.