doughnuttery

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doughnuttery (plural doughnutteries)

  1. Alternative form of doughnutery.
    • 1895 August, Lillian Plunkett Ferguson, “This, That and the Other”, in The Traveler, volume VI, number 2, page 28:
      And is it not wiser for the stomach’s sake to replenish one’s interior with country boiled beef rather than with the wretched unsubstantials that city doughnutteries afford?
    • 1919 May 24, Fred High (conductor), “Lyceum & Chautauqua: Confessions of a Platform Weevil: A Review of Irwin S. Cobb’s Saturday Evening Post Story of His Chautauqua Efforts—Some Inside Facts and Figures Show Why the Warrior Wars”, in The Billboard, volume XXXI, number 21, page 32:
      But speaking about hotels, hasheries and doughnutteries, Friend Cobb says: “I know all that there is to know about good hotels and bad hotels, about good food and bad food, about the cafeteria pie and the lunch-stand sandwich, about the dining-car oyster and the way station doughnut and of these last-named two I greatly prefer the latter, because the way station doughnut can withstand any climate, and the dining-car oyster cannot and does not, as full well the seasoned traveler knows.”
    • 1935, Kenneth Roberts, For Authors Only and Other Gloomy Essays, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., page 433:
      Today it is a road of [] doggeries, crab-meateries, doughnutteries, clammeries; []
    • 1938 August 23, Pic, page 24:
      In these pictures, taken at Maxwell House’s doughnuttery on Broadway, Red barely scratches the surface.
    • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 320:
      Carlo looked as at the world of fallen man on the endless suburbs that passed for a city—[] a doughnuttery; []
    • 1991, Helen Witty, Dick Witty, Feed the Birds, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, pages 91–92:
      If you like to cook, this no-frills recipe will make a big trayful for a fragment of their price at the local doughnuttery.
    • 2003, U[rsula] A[skham] Fanthorpe, Queueing for the Sun, Peterloo Poets, →ISBN, page 51:
      Landscape of withdrawn teashops, of shut / Pizzerias and doughnutteries, / Lavatories out of order.
    • 2018, Marisa Alvarsson, Naturally Sweet Vegan Treats: Plant-Based Delights Free from Refined and Artificial Sweeteners[1], Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN:
      As artisan “doughnutteries” pop up in all the hipster hubs around the globe selling ever more outlandish and Instagramable doughnut concoctions, I do believe there is still a place for a humbler and less neon-hued or sugar-drenched homemade version.
    • 2019, Serena Lee, Vegan London: A Guide to the Capital’s Best Cafés, Restaurants and Food Stores, White Lion Publishing, →ISBN, page 105:
      Stepping up London’s dessert game, the last decade has seen a huge increase in vegan cake businesses as well as ‘doughnutteries’, cookie-makers and patisseries.