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ironmongery
[ ahy-ern-mong-guh-ree, -muhng- ]
noun
, British.
, plural i·ron·mon·ger·ies.
- a hardware store or business.
- the stock of a hardware store; hardware.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ironmongery1
First recorded in 1705–15; ironmonger + -y 3
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Example Sentences
Don Mateo's right hand in all these festivities was Severino, of the ironmongery shop.
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Some of the chiefs, enjoining silence, made short harangues, and Cook began the usual distribution of ironmongery and hardware.
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So does the ironmongery —candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up.
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It would purchase muskets and powder and ball, cloth and ironmongery and strong liquors from the white men of the settlements.
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Also, apart from his connection with the Brethren, proprietor of a very paying little ironmongery business.
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