spicery

American  

[spahy-suh-ree] / ˈspaɪ sə ri /

noun

plural

spiceries

1. spice.

2. spicy flavor or fragrance.

3. Archaic. a storeroom or place for spices.

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spicery British  

/ ˈspaɪsərɪ /

noun

1. spices collectively

2. the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices

3. obsolete a place to store spices

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Etymology

Origin of spicery

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

Example Sentences

One letter speaks of six ships coming out of France "with wyn and spicery full laden."

From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell

This shorter passage to Cathay, or the land of spicery, had been the day-dream of all the great navigators in this direction for more than a hundred years.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)

I have spent my wealth of spicery; the days of my anointing are for ever ended.

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

We see the Midianite and Ishmaelite caravan passing Dothan—still known by its ancient name—with their bales of spicery from Gilead for the dwellers in the Delta, and carrying away with them the young Hebrew slave.

From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

And herewithal there was such a savour as all the spicery of the world had been there.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir