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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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