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manufactory

noun as in factory

noun as in industry

noun as in mill

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noun as in plant

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He created the 11 porcelain disks at France’s famed Sèvres manufactory, and they have never been shown publicly before.

They are pieced together from cloth sourced from dead stock or traditional Irish tweed makers like Molloy & Sons in County Donegal or Belgian linen manufactories or kimono cotton mills in far-off Japanese prefectures.

It was the headquarters or manufactory of an enterprise that produced flea powder.

I Thoreau-ly enjoyed it as would have Henry David T. who worked in his father’s pencil manufactory for many years and rediscovered a process for making good pencil leads from poor quality graphite.

Winbolt confidently informs me in the guide that in this area I am to find "modern powder mills, chemical works and manufactories of general machinery".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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