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noun, feminine

beuverie

/bœ.vʁi/

noun, feminine/bœ.vʁi/plural: beuveries

binge, excessive (usually social) drinking

Je n’ai qu’un pauvre lopin de terre, mes paysans se croisent les bras, ne rêvent que de beuveries

From beuveur (“a drinker”) + -erie, with the first part being an antiquated form of current buveur. A more regular form buverie was created in the sixteenth century but dropped from usage in the nineteenth.