mercery

American  

[mur-suh-ree] / ˈmɜr sə ri /

noun

British.

• merceries
  plural

1. a mercer's shop.

2. mercers' wares.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• merceries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of mercery

1250–1300; Middle English mercerie < Old French. See mercer, -y ³

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

mercery merceries

This is mercery of the eighteenth, and no earlier century.

From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

You left your place, the mercery business is in a very bad way, and the revenue from my marriage portion is not sufficient to maintain us.

From Theresa Raquin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

The Mercers' School was first held in the hospital and then removed to the mercery.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

Fairs April 8, 9, 10, linen drapery, mercery, toys, &c.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

Lydgate, in his ballad, describes the mercers' and haberdashers' stalls as side by side in the mercery in Chepe.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

To Barbary, Antwerp exported woollen goods, linen, merceries, metals, &c.; and received from it sugar, azure or anil, gums, coloquintida, leather, peltry, and fine feathers.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

To Bologne they export serges, and other stuffs, tapestry, linen, merceries, &c. and bring in return for it, wrought silks, cloth of gold and silver, crapes, caps, &c.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

Guicciardini observes, that Antwerp exported but little to Scotland, as that country was principally supplied from England and France: some spiceries, sugars, madder, wrought silks, camblets, serges, linen, and merceries, are exported.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson