spicery

[ spahy-suh-ree ]

/ ˈspaɪ sə ri /

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noun, plural spic·er·ies for 3.

spice.

spicy flavor or fragrance.

Archaic. a storeroom or place for spices.

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Origin of spicery

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

Words nearby spicery

spice, spiceberry, spicebush, spicebush swallowtail, Spice Islands, spicery, spicewood, spick-and-span, spicula, spiculate, spiculation

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How to use spicery in a sentence

All that country grows good ginger; and therefore merchants go thither for spicery.
Early Travels in Palestine|Arculf et al.
The appearance of the forests and the land “argued drugs and spicery,” “and other riches of golde.”
The Lily and the Totem|William Gilmore Simms
And then they kneeled down and made their devotions, and there was such a savour as all the spicery in the world had been there.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II)|Thomas Malory
It was not a spicery such as Europe depended upon, but still certain things seemed valuable!
1492|Mary Johnston

To the south of it lay Spicery and Vintnery, the quarter of the richer burgesses.
History of the English People, Volume I (of 8)|John Richard Green

British Dictionary definitions for spicery

spicery

/ (ˈspaɪsərɪ) /

noun plural -eries

spices collectively

the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices

obsolete a place to store spices

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