spicery

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14
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15
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7

Definition of spicery

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Spices, in general.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Spices, in general.
  2. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A repository of spices.
    “Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen, twelve persons : four yeomen of the silver scullery, two yeomen of the pantry, with two other pastelers under the yeomen.”
    “Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?”

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Etymology

From Middle English spicerie, from Old French espicerie; equivalent to spice + -ery.

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