villagery
English
Etymology
Noun
villagery (usually uncountable, plural villageries)
- (obsolete) A district of villages.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B3, verso:
- Are not you hee, / That frights the maidens of the Villageree, […]
References
- “villagery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “villagery, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.