brewery

brewery
brewery 1650s (but perhaps from c.1200 as a surname element), from BREW (Cf. brew) (v.) + -ERY (Cf. -ery). Old English had breawern in this sense (from aern "house;" see BARN (Cf. barn)). BREWHOUSE (Cf. Brewhouse) was the more common word through 18c.

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