Noun: maistry
| Singular | maistry |
| Plural | maistries |
Sample Sentences
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Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “Well, yes, of a kind. I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.” [1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:]
Nouns inflected like maistry
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi मिस्त्री (mistrī), from Portuguese mestre. See: Portuguese Nouns '
mestre'.