spicery

[ spahy-suh-ree ]

noun

, plural spic·er·ies

1. spice.
2. spicy flavor or fragrance.
3. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of spicery¹

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

Example Sentences

The fur-hunters have held the hunters of gold and precious stones and spicery a close race in the rank of world movers.

From Project Gutenberg

Gad: It is a company of Ishmaelites, from Gilead, with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going down into Egypt.

From Project Gutenberg

For he is gone to town, to bring a whole magazine of spiceries: his coat-pockets are wide.

From Project Gutenberg

The Peruvian adventurers wished to find gold; the voyagers to the Antilles, magical waters and new productions of the earth; but Magellan's dream was of the spiceries of the Indian seas.

From Project Gutenberg

And therewithal was such savor As bloweth over sea From a land of many colored flowers And trees of spicery.

From Project Gutenberg