- plural of spicery.
Example Sentences
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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 Kerr, Robert
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 Stevenson, William
The ships of India bring thither all kinds of spiceries, precious stones, and pearls, cloths of silk and gold, elephants' teeth, and many other articles....
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred
The Peruvian adventurers wished to find gold; the voyagers to the Antilles, magical waters and new productions of the earth; but Magellan's dream was of the spiceries of the Indian seas.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah
In this way Persia is furnished with spiceries, which are brought all the way from Masulipatam by land.
