bookery

noun — 2 senses

bookery

noun

Etymology From book + -ery.

1

a collection of books

  • The young lady of the period, whose average reading was one new novel per diem, had long before sought pastures new at Cobb's, or other bookeries.1878, Memorials of the Old Chicago Library
2

study of or passion for books

  • Hood returned to London looking and feeling well and ready to take up his "bookery" again with renewed zest.1907, Thomas Hood: His Life and Times - Page 364

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