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Like a wafer (especially, thin, brittle, light).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1900, Annie French Hector (as “Mrs. Alexander”), The Step-Mother, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Chapter 4, p. 65, [...] enter Mrs. Raikes [...] leading by the hand a little boy in a sailor suit, cap in hand, a thin, wafery-looking boy, tall for seven years old, but white and wan, with big, dark-grey eyes, restless and shifty, alarmed like a wild thing afraid of the hunters.
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Sliced very thinly. (of bread)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1864, Louisa M. Alcott, Boston: Loring, Chapter 5, p. 94, This was none of your stand-up, wafery, bread and butter teas, but a thorough-going, sit-down supper [...]
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A kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete, uncountable
Examples
- 1474, Ordinances for the Government of Prince Edward, Son of King Edward IV in A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household Made in Divers Reigns, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1790, “Office of Greate Spycerye,” p. 80, One secundary clerke in this office of the greate spycery, sufficiaunt to resceive and trulye to keepe the Kinge’s stuffe of this office; and to wryte the dayly bookes of the delyveraunces thereof, and of all the other three offices, as it shall require; and he to awnswere to everye parcell of them into the counting-house, as for suger to the wafery, or to the sellare or kychyn, with all other manner of spices nedefull to the confectionarye and sawcerye [...]
- 1603, Richard Niccols, A Funeral Oration, upon the Death of the Late Deceased Princesse of Famous Memorye, Elizabeth, London: E. White, “Queen Elizabeths Funerall,” Then folowed Groomes, being: [...] Kitchin. Lawndrie. Ewerie. Confectionary. Waferie. [...]
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From wafer + -y.
From Middle English waaffery, probably from wafre + -ie (equivalent to wafer + -y). Compare Medieval Latin wafria, French wafrie.
