spicery
Americannoun
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spices collectively
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the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices
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obsolete a place to store spices
Etymology
Origin of spicery
1250–1300; Middle English spicerie < Old French espicerie. See spice, -ery
Example Sentences
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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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