Is "perfumery" a real word?

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<p>like “butchery”, etc…
is it a real word; I’ve been seeing it everywhere I go.</p>

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<p>according to my spell checker it is.
how do you hear it everywhere though?</p>

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<p>on signs actually. I’d be walking in the street and see 5 or six adjoining shops all selling perfume. They all have “perfumery” written on their signs. I’d never seen it before so I was just wondering.</p>

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<p>I’ve never heard of it before.</p>

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<p>neither had I; till yesterday.
That and meatery (which I’m pretty sure is not a real word).</p>

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<p>I don’t think meatery is…</p>

<p>and dictionary.com doesn’t either.</p>

<p>(I hope they aren’t the same place?)</p>

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<p>lol. I doubt that. They were a few blocks apart.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.google.com%5B/url%5D”>www.google.com</a></p>

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<p>what’s your point? I think I know how to google stuff.
This way I ask actual people insted of a machine.</p>

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<p>Half Merinated Chicken</p>

<p>My brother and I debated what that sentence means for nearly an hour. Does it mean that there is a half chicken that is fully merinated or a full chicken that is half merinated.
My US History teacher didn’t know the answer either.</p>

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<p>hmm… my first thought on looking at it is a full chicken marinated…</p>

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<p>but can’t it still be a half chicken fully marinated?
I’m suddenly surprised that I didn’t ask the guy selling if I could see it. That would have solved the problem lol.</p>

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<p>but then it should say “half a marinated chicken.”</p>

<p>and actually "half marinated chicken doesn’t saying anything bout being whole. it could be just a piece of chicken that is half marinated.</p>

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<p>maybe. But it’s still vague.
It was too expensive anyway…and I don’t even know what marinated means.</p>