spicery

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

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spicery (countable and uncountable, plural spiceries)

  1. Spices, in general.
  2. (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?

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