spicery

[ spahy-suh-ree ]

noun,plural spic·er·ies for 3.
  1. spicy flavor or fragrance.

  1. Archaic. a storeroom or place for spices.

Origin of spicery

1
1250–1300; Middle English spicerie<Old French espicerie.See spice, -ery

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How to use spicery in a sentence

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

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

    The Lily and the Totem | William Gilmore Simms
  • 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.

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

    1492 | Mary Johnston
  • To the south of it lay spicery and Vintnery, the quarter of the richer burgesses.

British Dictionary definitions for spicery

spicery

/ (ˈspaɪsərɪ) /


nounplural -eries
  1. spices collectively

  2. the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices

  1. obsolete a place to store spices

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