# bagelry
## English
### Etymology

From bagel +‎ -ry.

### Noun

bagelry (plural bagelries)
* A bagel shop.
** 1957 June 17, Will Jones, “Buck Up, You Bagels”, in Minneapolis Morning Tribune, volume XCI, number 24, Minneapolis, Minn., page 38:I stopped by my favorite north Minneapolis bagelry Saturday to pick up a dozen of the things and when I got home I discovered I had, not a sackful of bagels, but a sackful of I don’t know what. […] I called the lady at the bagelry and accused her of giving me some deformed Parker House rolls.
** 1960 October 28, Rachel A. Rabinowicz, “Sure ‘Tis Green Bagels We’ll Be Havin’ On St. Paddy’s Day in the Paddy Wagon Yet”, in National Jewish Post and Opinion, volume XVI, number 10, page 3:If you’re really lucky, they may tell you of Mendele Pravda, the sailor with a bagel in every port, who set up bagelries in Shanghai, in Africa, wherever ship touched shore.
** 1964 September 26, Harvey Aronson, “Confessions of a Bagelphile”, in Newsday, volume 25, number 20, page 38:Take it from other probagelers (this is a subject on which there is no room for objectivity) such as Moishe and his fellow workers at a Hempstead bagelry—all loyal members of Bagel Bakers Union Local 338, who have devoted their lives to bagels.
** 1981 April, Bright Mellomeyer, “24th St. Zoned for Franks”, in Noe Valley Voice, volume V, number 3, page 8:In exchange for a monopoly on designer jean stores, Jacuzzi dealers, travel agencies, foreign car repair garages, bagelries, and four-star French restaurants, Pacific Heights had to accept an unlimited number of drug rehabilitation residence programs, after-hours clubs, massage parlors and head shops.
** 1990, Kathryn Robinson, Stephanie Irving, editors, Seattle Cheap Eats: 300 Terrific Bargain Eateries, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 23:Co-owner Peter Ryan learned his craft in the bagelries of NYC, and most of his bosses weren't Jewish either, so he has no qualms about offering such un[-]kosher concoctions as ham and Swiss with mayo and sprouts on a whole-wheat bagel.
** 1992, Bruce Patterson, Alberta: An Altitude SuperGuide, Banff, Alta.: Altitude Publishing, →ISBN, page 250:The area also boasts a wide variety of cafés and restaurants, from casual bagelries to elegant eateries.
** 1993, James M. Forbes, Café San Francisco: Or How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Live With Little Money, →ISBN, page 17:[…] as retailers were able to see the success of both the bohemian-style coffeehouse and the sale of baked goods, new food stuff cafés became popular, including bagelries and café-only destinations for some of the largest City bakeries such as Just Desserts and Boudin’s.
** 1995 November 13, Sandra Dallas, “Gimme a Bagel—with Legs”, in BusinessWeek, page 84:In fact, despite their New York names, most of the new bagelries, with their crisp, clean lines and blight graphics, look more like California coffee bars than Big Apple delis.
** 2005 November, Shawn Gadberry, “It tastes like fall’s here”, in The Fig Garden Villager, page 9:The bagelry just introduced its pumpkin-spice latte and capuccino freeze, and it will have these seasonal favorites through Christmas.
** 2023 March 5, Sharyn Jackson, “The hunt for the best chocolate chip cookie in the Twin Cities”, in Star Tribune, page E6:“The Cookie” is on the brunch menu at this North Loop bagelry, right after a breakfast sandwich, and it makes sense; it’s practically a meal.