An archaic or variant spelling of foundry; a place where metal is melted and cast into shapes.
From Old French fonderie, from fondre (to melt or cast metal). This is an older spelling variant of the more common 'foundry,' both derived from the same medieval metalworking term.
This spelling shows how English was still sorting out its vocabulary during the Renaissance—we ended up preferring 'foundry' but 'foundery' reminds us that multiple pronunciations existed for the same craft.
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