mappery

English

Etymology

map +‎ -ery

Noun

mappery (uncountable)

(archaic, rare) cartography
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 205:
  They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;

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