villagery
English
Etymology
village + -ry?
Noun
villagery (usually uncountable, plural villageries)
- (obsolete) A district of villages.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Are not you he […] That frights the maidens of the villagery […] ?
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for villagery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)