villagery

English

Etymology

From village +‎ -ery.

Noun

villagery (usually uncountable, plural villageries)

1. (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.