bindery
A workshop or factory where books are bound.
Noun
- A workshop or factory where books are bound.
- Places of Employment: About 69,000 bookbinders and bindery workers were employed [in the United States] in 1978. Many worked in shops that specialize in bookbinding; others work in the bindery departments of book...
- The tours to the binderies and to the printers and publishers lasted on the average of 1.45 and 1.71 hours respectively. - 1996, Thomas D. Walker, Surveying the library landscape, page 14:
Synonyms: bookbindery
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bindaną Proto-West Germanic *bindan Old English bindan Middle English binden English bind Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English bindery From bind + -ery (“place of”).