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

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roastery (plural roasteries)

  1. A place where meat, coffee, etc. is roasted.
    • 2007 September 3, Carolyn Marshall, “Alfred H. Peet, 87, Dies; Leader of a Coffee Revolution”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.

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