spicery

[spahy-suh-ree]

noun

plural

spiceries 

1. spice.

2. spicy flavor or fragrance.

3. Archaic.,  a storeroom or place for spices.

spicery

/ ˈspaɪsərɪ /

noun

1. spices collectively

2. the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices

3. obsolete,  a place to store spices

Word History and Origins

Origin of spicery¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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Gad: It is a company of Ishmaelites, from Gilead, with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going down into Egypt.

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He drove a great trade in spiceries and herbs with the Venetians, from which he had acquired much wealth; and he disdained no branch of business whereby anything was to be made.

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The good soul of Pigafetta felt that these islands of fruits and spiceries were indeed an earthly paradise.

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

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