What does "biscuitry" mean?
A mass or collection of baked goods such as biscuits and bread.
Biscuitry
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A mass or collection of baked goods such as biscuits and bread.
- Grammar: biscuitry is listed as noun.
- Usage evidence: During the war, while most other foreign colony groceries of Manhattan were destitute of exotic supplies, these Tartar-Espafioles managed to get certain shipments of their needed products from the Nile region (as date, palm and raisin sugars; lentil biscuitry; kaviar, compressed and dry; and many other items).
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A mass or collection of baked goods such as biscuits and bread. uncountable
"During the war, while most other foreign colony groceries of Manhattan were destitute of exotic supplies, these Tartar-Espafioles managed to get certain shipments of their needed products from the Nile region (as date, palm and raisin sugars; lentil biscuitry; kaviar, compressed and dry; and many other items)."
- 2 The baking of biscuits, bread, and similar items. uncountable
"His biscuits -- well, I have eaten the results of less succuessful efforts in biscuitry, but I remember neither when nor where."
- 3 The business of manufacturing biscuits. uncountable
"Similar developments also took place in vinegars, ginger bread, sweets and desserts, pastries where Generate Alimentaire came up very fast by means of merger, fortifying Its threatened position ; in biscuitry, where the main French groups (L'Alsacienne, Bicuiterie Nantaise and Buscuits Brun) have succeeded in outstripping American companies like Nabisco and Pillsbury; in milk products, where large companies such as Genvrain, Gervais and Rocquefort existed already before the war and strenghened their positions further by take-overs during the fifties, as did the two large cooperatives, a defensive reaction occurred when about 10 small companies joined forces in Sapiem; this company now has merged with Genvrain."
- 4 An individual business that manufactures biscuits and similar items; a biscuit factory. countable
"For a couple of years the present writer was familiar with Russian biscuitries all over slafāom from the Pacific to the Baltic, but saw nothing original."
- 5 The process of inserting biscuits (thin ovals of wood or other material) into mating slots in order to provide a gluing surface. uncountable
"If all goes well with the lathe and the biscuitry, there will be only a little filing and scraping required to smooth the transitions around the corners."
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- 6 Synonym of biscuit (“a form of unglazed earthenware”). uncountable
"Though rare, this pierced biscuitry is typically Ming."
Example
"During the war, while most other foreign colony groceries of Manhattan were destitute of exotic supplies, these Tartar-Espafioles managed to get certain shipments of their needed products from the Nile region (as date, palm and raisin sugars; lentil biscuitry; kaviar, compressed and dry; and many other items)."
Common questions
How do you use "biscuitry" in a sentence?
During the war, while most other foreign colony groceries of Manhattan were destitute of exotic supplies, these Tartar-Espafioles managed to get certain shipments of their needed products from the Nile region (as date, palm and raisin sugars; lentil biscuitry; kaviar, compressed and dry; and many other items).
Etymology
From biscuit + -ry.