A variant spelling or regional term possibly referring to administrative office work or record-keeping, related to duftery.
An alternative or dialectal form of 'duftery,' with the same Persian-rooted origin through 'daftar.' This spelling variation reflects how English spelled borrowed words differently across regions and time periods.
English spelling is notoriously weird partly because we borrowed words from dozens of languages without standardizing how to write them. 'Duftry' and 'duftery' are probably just different attempts to spell the same Indian administrative term—like how 'doughnut' and 'donut' are acceptable today.
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