bookbindery

[ boo k-bahyn-duh-ree ]
/ ˈbʊkˌbaɪn də ri /

noun, plural book·bind·er·ies.

Origin of bookbindery

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15; bookbinder + -ry

Example sentences from the Web for bookbindery

  • Silk is used in the bookbindery as end papers in extra work, and also for fancy goods and for lining boxes.

  • At the bookbindery several women and girls are engaged to fold the sheets.

    Travels Through North America, v. 1-2 |Berhard Saxe-Weimar Eisenach
  • Thence into a back hall piled high with boxes and past the presses of a bookbindery to the freight elevator.

    The Man in Lower Ten |Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • There was a nineteen-year-old lad who, when I knew him two years before, was doing boy's work in the Collier bookbindery.

    The U-boat hunters |James B. Connolly

British Dictionary definitions for bookbindery

bookbindery
/ (ˈbʊkˌbaɪndərɪ) /

noun plural -eries

a place in which books are bound Often shortened to: bindery