mercery

[mur-suh-ree]

noun, plural mer·cer·ies. British.

a mercer's shop.
mercers' wares.

Origin of mercery

1250–1300; Middle English mercerie < Old French. See mercer, -y³

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Historical Examples of mercery

The Mercers' School was first held in the hospital and then removed to the mercery.
Old and New London
Walter Thornbury
It stands at the end of Mercery Lane, a lofty building with towers at its corners, and two storeys above the archway.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
Hartley Withers
Lydgate, in his ballad, describes the mercers' and haberdashers' stalls as side by side in the mercery in Chepe.
Old and New London
Walter Thornbury
This yere was a strife betwene yong men of the Mercery and Lumbardes.
A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483
Anonymous
The latter have a great many shops of mercery, haberdashery, and millinery.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil
Maria Graham