spicery
noun
spiceries
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pluralof spicery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The chief imports were wine from the king's French dominions, woad for dying, spiceries, jewels, silks, furs, &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
Their wine is made from rice and spiceries; and their ordinary food is rice and raw flesh, seasoned with spiceries or garlic, as formerly mentioned.
Basora is near the head of the gulf of Persia, and drives a great trade in spiceries and drugs, which come from Ormus.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
Ceylon was a depôt for all these articles, which were exported, together with spiceries, and the precious stones for which this island was famous.
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
The good soul of Pigafetta felt that these islands of fruits and spiceries were indeed an earthly paradise.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth
