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spicery

[ spahy-suh-ree ]

noun

, plural spic·er·ies
  1. spicy flavor or fragrance.
  2. Archaic. a storeroom or place for spices.


spicery

/ ˈspaɪsərɪ /

noun

  1. spices collectively
  2. the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices
  3. obsolete.
    a place to store spices
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of spicery1

1250–1300; Middle English spicerie < Old French espicerie. See spice, -ery
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Example Sentences

All that country grows good ginger; and therefore merchants go thither for spicery.

The appearance of the forests and the land “argued drugs and spicery,” “and other riches of golde.”

And then they kneeled down and made their devotions, and there was such a savour as all the spicery in the world had been there.

It was not a spicery such as Europe depended upon, but still certain things seemed valuable!

To the south of it lay Spicery and Vintnery, the quarter of the richer burgesses.

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