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

And herewithal there was such a savour as all the spicery of the world had been there.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

With regard to the phrase spicery here and elsewhere, it should be noted that the Italian spezerie included a vast deal more than ginger and other things "hot i' the mouth."

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

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

From The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Lobingier, Elizabeth Erwin Miller

To that land go the merchants for spicery.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

They have plenty and variety of provisions for their table; and as for spicery, and other things that the country don't produce, they have constant supplies of them from England.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert