tripery
(ˈtraɪpərɪ)
[a. OF. triperie (13.. in Godef. Compl.), f. tripe tripe1: see -ery.]
a. A place where tripe is prepared or sold. † b. In contempt, Action pertaining to the tripes or entrails (obs. rare).
| 1611 Cotgr., Triperie, a Triperie; a market, street, or shop wherein tripes are vsually sold. 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶150 To speake of that piece of Tripery, of washing the Guts with a Clyster. 1656 in Blount Glossogr. [from Cotgr.]. 1854 Q. Rev. Sept. 282 Slaughter-houses, triperies, bone-boiling houses, gut-scraperies. |