ice-creamery

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Noun[edit]

ice-creamery (plural ice-creameries)

  1. Alternative form of ice creamery.
    • 1853, J. Clement, editor, The Western Literary Messenger: A Family Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, Morality and General Intelligence, Buffalo: Jewett, Thomas & Co. [], page 55, column 2:
      [] now, Taylor, defiant and unconquerable, is building an ice-creamery on the corner of White street and Broadway, before the unimaginable splendor of which, Thomson will pale his ineffectual fire.
    • 2010, Stephen Orr, Time’s Long Ruin, Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page 122:
      Glenelg beach, with its ice-creameries and book exchanges, pubs and fish shops selling Fresh Oshun Fish.
    • 2022, Helen Rolfe, Finding Happiness at Heritage View, Boldwood Books, →ISBN:
      The rain lashed at the windows of the ice-creamery as Hazel, Gus, Peter, and Abigail huddled inside on the largest table.
    • 2023, Fil Bufalo, Two Suitcases full of Kangaroos, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
      It would have been too risky to have sought camouflage in the queue at the ice-creamery, hankering as I was for a sampling of a flavour other than strawberry, and a bottle of water.