spicery

American  

[spahy-suh-ree] / ˈspaɪ sə ri /

noun

plural

spiceries

1. spice.

2. spicy flavor or fragrance.

3. Archaic. a storeroom or place for spices.

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spicery British  

/ ˈspaɪsərɪ /

noun

1. spices collectively

2. the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices

3. obsolete a place to store spices

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Etymology

Origin of spicery

1250–1300; Middle English spicerie < Old French espicerie. See spice, -ery

Example Sentences

Sweet dews, cool-breathing airs, and spaces wide Of precious spicery wafted with soft wind: Fair comely bodies goodly beautifi’d Snow-limb’d, rose-cheek’d, ruby-lip’d, pearl-ted, star eyn’d Their parts each fair in fit proportion all conbin’d.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

And therewithal was such savor As bloweth over sea From a land of many colored flowers And trees of spicery.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee

The fur-hunters have held the hunters of gold and precious stones and spicery a close race in the rank of world movers.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison

His Twopenny Post-Bag is a perfect "nest of spicery"; where the Cayenne is not spared.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

For you must know that all the spicery, and the cloths of silk and gold, and the other valuable wares that come from the interior, are brought to that city.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry