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▪ I. wafery, n.|ˈweɪfərɪ|
Also 5 waaffery, 6 wafrie, waferye, waffrey, wafarie, 7 wayfary.
[a. AF. wafrie, f. wafre wafer n.]
1. A room or building in which wafers or thin cakes are made; the department of the royal household occupied with the making of wafers. Also † wafery-house.
1455Househ. Hen. VI in Househ. Ord. (1790) *22 The waaffery—William Overton, Yoman, [etc.]. 1553in Archæologia XII. 362 The Waferye. Adam Alee, yeoman. a1558in Gutch Collect. Cur. (1781) II. 1 Item, flore for the pastre, and wafery, and seller, as nedithe. a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 24 In the chaundrye, iii persons: in the wafery, ii. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 43/2 Officers and Servants in the Kings Majesties Houshold... The Waffrey-House. Yeoman,..Groom,..[etc.]. Ibid. iv. xii. (Roxb.) 499/2 Then followed the Groomes of..The Wafery. 1826Hor. Smith Tor Hill (1838) II. 271 Not unless you come to him from the wafery, the pantry, the cellerage..or the larder. 1830Nicolas in Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. York 229/1 The Wafery..still is one of the offices of the royal house-hold.
†2. Wafers collectively, light pastry. Obs.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 170 b, He..bidde theim to kepe a corner of their stomakes for the tartes, wafrie, and iounkettes, that wer to bee serued..after the meate.
▪ II. ˈwafery, a. rare.
[f. wafer n. + -y.]
Like a wafer, extremely thin.
1880J. P. Struthers Life & Lett. v. (1918) 97 A very thin wafery idea. 1891Century Dict. s.v., A wafery thinness. |