mercery

[ mur-suh-ree ]

/ ˈmɜr sə ri /

a mercer's shop.

mercers' wares.

QUIZZES

Here is our second set of teacher-selected PSAT vocabulary words. Do you know the meanings of these terms?

Question 1 of 10

advocate

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

The latter have a great many shops of mercery, haberdashery, and millinery.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
This yere was a strife betwene yong men of the Mercery and Lumbardes.
A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483|Anonymous
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