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spicery

[ spahy-suh-ree ]

noun

plural spiceries
  1. spicy flavor or fragrance.
  2. Archaic. a storeroom or place for spices.


spicery

/ ˈ貹ɪəɪ /

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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spicery1

1250–1300; Middle English spicerie < Old French espicerie. See spice, -ery
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The fur-hunters have held the hunters of gold and precious stones and spicery a close race in the rank of world movers.

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

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

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The good soul of Pigafetta felt that these islands of fruits and spiceries were indeed an earthly paradise.

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

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