Definition of "butcheries" [butcheries]

• Plural form of butchery. (noun)

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• "Chair of Paris, and its various students, now looking for distinction as interpreters in the land of RAZZIAS or "butcheries," for the best derivation and historical progress of the term RAZZIA, as used by Christian and civilized nations, in relation to infidel and Mohammedan barbarians."
• "It wanted Zambeef, which was already supplying some of its South African outlets and all of its stores in Zambia, to come along and supply and staff its in-store butcheries."
• "Yet because most of the victims were Kurds, Shiites, marsh Arabs, Iranians and Kuwaitis, the question was why it should matter to the West—anymore than, say, the butcheries in the Congo matter."