furriery
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɜɹ.i.əɹ.i/
Noun[edit]
furriery (countable and uncountable, plural furrieries)
- Furs in general.
- 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:
- For smaller furrieries and edgings, the skins of the MARTEN, the SQUIRREL, the ERMINE, the RABBIT and the MARMOTTE are the choicest
- The business of a furrier; the fur trade.
- hide unfit for furriery
References[edit]
- “furriery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.