mappery

noun

mappery

noun

Etymology From map + -ery.

1

Archaic, Rare cartography

  • They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 205:

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