spicery
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English spicerie, from Old French espicerie; equivalent to spice + -ery.
Noun
[edit]spicery (countable and uncountable, plural spiceries)
- Spices, in general.
- (archaic) A repository of spices.
- 1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370:
- 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.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time:
- 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?
Translations
[edit]repository of spices
References
[edit]- “spicery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.