Roastery

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A place where meat, coffee, etc. is roasted.

    "Mr. Peet was born in 1920 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, where he learned the coffee trade while cleaning machinery and running errands at his father’s small coffee roastery."

Example

More examples

"Mr. Peet was born in 1920 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, where he learned the coffee trade while cleaning machinery and running errands at his father’s small coffee roastery."

Etymology

From roast + -ery. Doublet of rosticceria and rotisserie.

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