donutery

English

Noun

donutery (plural donuteries)

Alternative form of doughnutery
- 1940 August 15, The Tacoma News Tribune, 57th year, number 329, Tacoma, Wash., page 7:
  Observed very early for a member of the financing fraternity was W. A. Hoage, of Pacific First Federal, stowing away a very early breakfast at Jim Lesher’s donutery on 6th avenue, on Monday.
- 1956 November 14, Concord Transcript, volume 69, number 290, Concord, Calif., page 1:
  Chick and Chuck, pleased as punch with their new donutery in the Shop Center …
- 1959 February 18, Daily Transcript, volume 66, number 551, Concord, Calif., page 1:
  No change in [n]ame is planned, however, as the donutery has become quite a landmark in our fair city.
- 1970 May 23, Don Kolfage, “‘Old fogey’ Kolfage for curfew”, in The Windsor Star, Windsor, Ont., page 7:
  It never ceases to amaze and bewilder me, during these nocturnal jaunts to the nearest donutery, to see youngsters, many of them just barely in their teens if that old, roaming the downtown streets of Sarnia.
- 1992 March 4, Ken Beck, “Follow our taste tester on a trip to area shops”, in The Tennessean, volume 88, number 64, Nashville, Tenn., page 1-D:
  Ole Harper’s. This has got to be the most laidback donutery around.
- 2004, Henry Shukman, “Road Movie”, in Darien Dogs, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:
  Especially when all the little breakfasteries, the delis and donuteries and muffineries, are rattling up their shutters and putting on the coffee to brew.