LekhoriLekhoriA kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers.
Like a wafer (especially, thin, brittle, light).
It is, however, much more dangerous to descend than to ascend a rapid; for it is then almost impossible to stop a canoe, when under full headway, and if you happen to strike a rock, you will find your wafery canoe no better than a sieve.
Sliced very thinly. (of bread
1864, Louisa M. Alcott, Boston: Loring, Chapter 5, p. 94, This was none of your stand-up, wafery, bread and butter teas, but a thorough-going, sit-down supper […]
From Middle English waaffery, probably from wafre + -ie (equivalent to wafer + -y). Compare Medieval Latin wafria, French wafrie.
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