spicery

American  

[spahy-suh-ree] / ˈspaɪ sə ri /

noun

• spiceries
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• spiceries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of spicery

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

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Example Sentences

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We see the Midianite and Ishmaelite caravan passing Dothan—still known by its ancient name—with their bales of spicery from Gilead for the dwellers in the Delta, and carrying away with them the young Hebrew slave.

From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The play is choicely seasoned throughout with the good-humoured old statesman's spicery; and our captain is the theme that draws most of it out.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

There grow all manner of spicery, more plenteously than in any other country, as of ginger, cloves-gilofre, canell, seedwall, nutmegs and maces. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

Sheba, the Saba of classical antiquity, was an important kingdom of south-western Arabia, which had grown wealthy through its trade in spicery.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

These are essences, are "nests of spicery", bitter and sweet, honey and gall together.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt

Ceylon was a depôt for all these articles, which were exported, together with spiceries, and the precious stones for which this island was famous.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

The whole church was full, as the old books tell, of the odour of the rarest spiceries.

From The Great Return by Arthur Machen

Basora is near the head of the gulf of Persia, and drives a great trade in spiceries and drugs, which come from Ormus.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

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

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth

I view the waters quivering; quaff the breeze, Whose briny raciness keeps an under taste Of flavorous tropic sweets, perchance swept home From Cuba's perfumed groves and garden spiceries.

From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

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